Wednesday, October 1, 2014

Turkey seeks permanent solution in Iraq, Syria. -- Erdogan also called on European countries to share Turkey's burden in accommodating Syrian people fleeing

While being open to all types of cooperation regarding the fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant terrorism in Iraq and Syria, Turkey will not allow itself to be exploited in the pursuit for temporary solutions, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has declared.
In a keynote speech during the opening of the country's new legislative year on Wednesday, Erdogan said: "It is not possible that we would tolerate any terrorist organization - neither in our territories, nor in the region and the world.
"Turkey analyzes the crises in Iraq and Syria in the best way. It is a country which can establish a dialogue with all parties in the region."

He went on: "A decisive struggle with all terrorist groups in the region should be provided, and Turkey's proposals and warnings should be taken into account otherwise, tons of bombs that would be dropped from the air would only delay the threat and the danger."
A U.S.-led international coalition launched airstrikes against ISIL in Iraq and Syria on August 8 and September 20 respectively.
The U.S. has asked Turkey to be allowed to use its airspace for the transit of coalition fighter jets.

- 'Peace and security'
But given the massive flows of refugees that such airstrikes would create for Turkey, the country has demanded U.N.-set safe zones to be set up to protect Syrians inside Syria.
Erdogan said: "The peace, stability and security in the region are directly related to Turkey’s own peace, stability and security.
"Staying silent on the incidents in Libya, Palestine, Egypt, Somalia, Myanmar, Afghanistan, Ukraine, Yemen, Iraq and Syria is to deny Turkey's history and heritage and even its own existence."
  • Erdogan also called on European countries to share Turkey's burden in accommodating Syrian people fleeing the violence in their country.
  • He said: "The total number of refugees that the whole Europe accommodates are 130,000.
"The number of Syrians in Turkey has grown to 1.5 million and Turkey has so far spent some $4 billion on the Syrians it hosts and, with cross-border aid, this number reaches $4.5 billion."
"Turkey extends its helping hand to every Syrian, without looking at their identities as being Arab, Kurdish, Turkmen, Ezidi, Shiite, Nusayri, Christian or Jewish," he said.......................http://www.aa.com.tr/en/headline/398249--turkey-seeks-permanent-solution-in-iraq-syria-erdogan
1/10/14
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