Turkey- Turkish FM talks plight of civilians in Aleppo with Kerry
Date
5/2/2016 12:20:22 PM
(MENAFN- The Journal Of Turkish Weekly) >Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuolu and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry exchanged their views over the violence in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo as the latter was due to hold urgent talks in Geneva in a bid to bolster a fragile partial cease-fire in Syria while Turkish leaders were furious over assaults by regime forces in Aleppo.
Çavuolu and Kerry held a telephone conversation late on May 1 Turkish diplomatic sources told Hürriyet Daily News.
“Developments taking place in Syria in recent days and particularly the attacks on civilians in Aleppo were on the agenda of the conversation” the diplomatic sources speaking under customary condition of anonymity said.
Çavuolu initiated the telephone conversation with Kerry the same sources said.
On April 29 fears of more violence upon airstrikes by government forces prompted religious leaders in opposition neighborhoods of Aleppo to suspend public Friday prayers at mosques to avoid further casualties the Religious Council of Aleppo said in a statement.
“Yesterday on the holy day of Friday Friday prayer couldn’t be performed in Aleppo” Turkish Prime MinisterAhmet Davutolusaid on April 30 in a speech delivered in the eastern province of Mu.
“In the beautiful Aleppo in the Aleppo which is the light of our life mosques remained orphaned this Friday. Do you know why?Russianairplanes treacherous airplanes occupiers’ airplanes the Syrian airplanes - they poured down bombs on innocent people without regarding whether they were civilians children or women and on hospitals” Davutolu said.
On May 1 at Mihrimah Sultan Mosque in Istanbul’s Üsküdar district a group called the “Friday Prayer Revolution” held an event called “We are Gathering at Morning Prayer for Aleppo.”
Lauding shouts of “Takbir” an Arabic term associated with the phrase “Allahu Akbar” or “God is the Greatest” the group burnedRussianflags and posters ofRussianPresident Vladimir Putin the state-run Anadolu Agency reported.
“The hitting of hospitals the killing of a single pediatrician knowingly is the point where humanity has ended. It is time to manifest with our blood lives and properties that we are there for the Syrian people” Bülent Yldrm the chair of the Foundation for Human Rights and Freedoms and Humanitarian Relief (HH) was quoted as saying by the agency at the gathering.
The Istanbul-based HH had hit international headlines in May 2010 after it organized the “Gaza Freedom Flotilla” trying to break the Israeli blockade on the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. Relations between Turkey andIsraelcollapsed when Israeli commandos killed 10 pro-Palestinian Turkish activists who tried to breach the Gaza blockade.
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