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Assad may take part in Syria transition, Erdogan says
[Hurriyet Daily News] Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... has said Bashir al-Assad could take part in the transition process to find a solution in Syria, although he should have place in his country's future. "Either a transition process without al-Assad, or with al-Assad, is possible. But what is the 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," Erdogan said after performing his Eid al-Adha prayer early on Sept. 24 in Istanbul. Elaborating his discussion with Russian President Vladimir Putin  ...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...on Sept. 23, Erdogan said he "could not see a clear [perspective] in Russia's approach to Syria." But he also said that the Turkish and Russian foreign ministers would launch a new working group on the Syrian crisis, according to an agreement reached in talks with Putin. "We have decided to work on this issue at the U.N. General Assembly as a group of three foreign ministers from the U.S., ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... and Russia," Erdogan said, adding that Iran and Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... could also be involved in the process. With the participation of the EU, Jordan and Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... , efforts for Syria could be extended, the president also said. Erdogan added that he told Putin that al-Assad's current aim is to declare a "boutique Syria" of 15 percent of the country from Damascus to Latakia, including Homs. The Turkish president also reiterated Ankara's wish to create a "safe haven" in Syria, which it hopes will be cleared of "terrorist organizations." Posted by: Fred 2015-09-25 |
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