Friday, September 25, 2015

Erdoğan says his views on Syria’s Assad did not change

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has refuted claims suggesting his views on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad have changed.

“These are malicious quests. My approach about Turkey’s Syrian policy is the same with my term as prime minister,” Erdoğan told journalists on Sept. 25.

Erdoğan was referring to comments published in Turkish media following his statements the day before. “Either a transition process without al-Assad, or with al-Assad, is possible. But what is required is the opposition […] Nobody can foresee Syria’s future with al-Assad. It’s not possible to accept a person responsible for killing 300,000 to 350,000 people, a dictator,” Erdoğan said, after performing his Eid al-Adha prayer early on Sept. 24 in Istanbul.

On Sept. 25, the Turkish president also stressed Syrian opposition groups did not “approve an approach with al-Assad, hence the ongoing fight.”

“If al-Assad has a modicum of love for Syria, he should leave this job and go. We don’t have a problem with Syria’s domestic policies. But neither al-Assad nor the world should forget that we have a 911-kilometer-long border with Syria,” Erdoğan added.

“At every turn we are under the threat of terrorist groups there. Our patience has a limit. We are the ones who feed 2 million people [refugees],” the president noted, stressing only Qatar and Saudi Arabia had taken Ankara’s side as international efforts were going on regarding the crisis in Syria. 

 hurriyetdailynews.com
25/9/15
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