Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
Scourge of Qusayr...
accused Ankara of turning a blind eye to terrorists.
"Turkey has never allowed al-Qaeda-linked groups, it has never allowed them to cross its borders," Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said at a news conference in Ankara.
"Turkey is on the frontline of countries fighting against terrorism in the most determined fashion."
His remarks came after Assad said last week that Ankara was tolerating the presence of al-Qaeda-linked rebels on the long the volatile border between the two countries. There are several hardline Islamist groups among the numerous rebel formations fighting in Syria.
Al-Qaeda in Syria is fighting to drive rivals out of areas bordering Turkey and Iraq in a bid to control territory stretching from Iraq into northern Syria, observers say.