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| Turkey threatened to cut off electricity to Syria |
| 2011-11-15 |
| Turkey threatened to cut off supplies of electricity to its neighbor Syria on Tuesday, as the Damascus regime found itself under growing pressure from Arab, Turkish, European and North American governments for its ongoing lethal crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators. “We are supplying them [Syria] with electricity at the moment. If they stay on this course, we may be forced to re-examine all of these decisions,” said the Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yildiz on Tuesday, according to Turkey’s semi-official Anatolian Agency. Turkey, once a close political ally and strong trading partner of Syria, welcomed a decision by the Arab League last weekend to suspend Syria’s membership in the alliance. Days after the humiliating rebuke, a senior Arab League official told CNN the group was floating a plan to try to send some 500 observers to protect civilians in Syria. “In a meeting headed by Dr. Nabil Al Araby, the secretary-general of the Arab League, held Monday, the Arab League and Arab human rights organizations decided on a mechanism to protect Syrian civilians which will involve sending a delegation of 500 representatives of Arab organizations, media organizations, and military observers to Syria with the objective of documenting the situation on the ground,” the official said to CNN, speaking on condition of anonymit |
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