Syria at dead end, says President Gül

Turkey is increasing its pressure on the Syrian government. During his visit to London, Turkish President Abdullah Gül declared the situation in the Republic of Syria is reaching an end creating a change which, as he specified, it should not come through intervention from other countries. According to him, external intervention is not the right way; it should be the people who make the change. He had spoken to Assad regularly until a few months ago and advised him at the time to allow free elections, release political prisoners and announce a clear timetable for reforms, but now it is too late for that. The Turkish president said his country would not remain indifferent to Syria’s crisis and would support the demands of the Syrian people.

Not only the President, but also the Prime Minister is criticizing the Syrian leader, who compared al-Assad with post dictators who has fought until death.

Hundreds of thousands refugees are coming from Syria. Turkey had already said in previous months that the Syrian operations against civilians must end immediately. However, as we can read in the article the words of President Gül “Syria has reached a dead end”, he is prepared for worst. As the International Community, Turkey does not want to get involved in the war. Along with the U.S. and Switherland, it intervenes keeping Syrian government funds frozen. Therefore Turkey has lost every confidence in a possible change of the Syrian leader, if there was still some. At the moment, we do not know who will end this war, and who eventually will lead the government of this country, what we know is Syria’s neighboring country remains in a more passive attitude of non intervention.

Source: Hurriyet daily news.

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