Turkey- Assad may take part in Syria transition Erdoan says
Date
9/24/2015 12:18:53 PM
(MENAFN- The Journal Of Turkish Weekly) Turkish PresidentRecep Tayyip Erdoanhas said Bashar al-Assad could take part in the transition process to find a solution in Syria although heshould 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 300000 to 350000 people a dictator” Erdoan saidafter performing his Eid al-Adha prayer early on Sept. 24 in Istanbul. Elaborating his discussion withRussianPresident Vladimir Putin on Sept. 23 Erdoan said he “could not see a clear [perspective] in Russia’s approach to Syria.” But he also said that the Turkish andRussianforeign 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. Turkey and Russia” Erdoan said adding thatIranand Saudi Arabia could also be involved in the process. With the participation of the EU Jordan and Qatar efforts for Syria could be extended the president also said. Erdoan 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.”
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