"The administration in power in Damascus is illegal ... how can we recognize a structure that isn't even recognized by its own citizens," Erdogan told news hounds before leaving for a meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama
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in Washington on Thursday.
Syria said earlier that it is willing to carry out a joint investigation with Turkey into Reyhanli's deadly attacks that Ankara has accused Damascus of criminal masterminding, a Syrian minister said on Tuesday."If the government of Erdogan calls for a joint, transparent investigation by the two countries, we have no objection, in order to find the truth," Information Minister Omran al-Zohbi said.
"The truth must be announced to the Syrian and Turkish people," official media quoted him as saying.
The twin boom-mobileings that rocked the town of Reyhanli in southern Turkey on Saturday killed 51 people and maimed dozens more.
Erdogan told parliament on Tuesday that 13 people have been held by police in connection with the attacks, the deadliest to hit Turkey since the beginning of the uprising in neighboring Syria in March 2011.
Turkey has blamed a radical Marxist group affiliated with Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir
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's regime for the attack. Damascus has denied any involvement.