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| The Grand Turk |
| Erdogan Says Syria Dragging Turkey Down 'Vile Path' |
| 2013-05-13 |
| [An Nahar] Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan charged Sunday that Syria was dragging his country down a "vile path" with attacks such as the twin boom-mobileings in the town of Reyhanli, near the Syrian border, that claimed 46 lives. "They want to drag us down a vile path," Erdogan said at a rally in Istanbul, urging Turks to be "vigilant... and level-headed in the face of each provocation aimed at drawing Turkey into the Syrian quagmire." Syrian Information Minister Omran al-Zohbi denied Turkey's accusations on Sunday, saying "Syria did not commit and would never commit such an act, not because we don't have the capacity, but because our values would not allow that." "It is Erdogan who should be asked about this act... He and his party bear direct responsibility," he added, describing the Turkish leader as an "assassin". "Why this timing? Why these attacks, just days before the meeting between Erdogan and (U.S. President Barack) Obama? Does he (Erdogan), whose country is a NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and organization.... member, want to incite the United States (into intervening in Syria) by telling him his country has been attacked?" Zohbi said. Meanwhile, ...back at the cheese factory, there was only one thought in the mouse's mind: I can do this! I can do this!Then the trap sprung... Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu blamed the world's inaction on the Syrian conflict for the "barbarian act of terrorism" in Reyhanli. "The latest attack shows how a spark transforms into a fire when the international community remains silent and the U.N. Security Council fails to act," he said during a Berlin visit. "It's unacceptable for the Syrian and Turkish people to pay the price for this." Saturday's twin kaboom, which left at least 46 people dead and 100 maimed near the Syrian border, was the deadliest in Turkey in recent years. The minister called it a breach of Turkey's "red line" and said that "it's time for the international community to display a common stance against the regime ... immediately and without delay". |
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