Thursday, May 26, 2016

Turkish FM calls for ‘pluralist new Syria’

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu has called for the implementation of a “real political transition” to a “pluralist new Syria,” amid reports of a new constitution being drafted for Syria.

“A real political transition needs to be implemented for a new democratic Syria, based on the rule of law, in which people can elect their leaders through their free will,” said Çavuşoğlu at a meeting of the Syrian Turkmen Assembly held in the Turkish capital of Ankara.
       
“You represent the will of the Syrian Turkmen. Our aim is that our Turkmen brothers, who are an indispensable component of Syria, have their say in the administration of the country,” the minister said.


  • Saying Turkey supported the Syrian people’s aspirations for a “pluralist and freedom-based state,” Çavuşoğlu said this support was regardless of Syrians’ origin or doctrine – including Turkmen, Arabs, Kurds, Sunnis, Christians, Alawites and others.

Çavuşoğlu also said he would never forget “the victims of the Syrian regime, the Democratic Union Party [PYD] or the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant [ISIL],” recalling that Turkey was sheltering more than 3 million refugees fleeing war in Syria and Iraq, including 300,000 Turkmens.

On the same day, a United Arab Emirates newspaper stated that a new Syrian constitution, drafted by lawmakers in Damascus, was presented to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in March, who in turn gave a draft to his U.S. counterpart John Kerry...
 [hurriyetdailynews.com]
26/5/16
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