It figures: Erdogan backing Assad
You just knew that these two clowns would stick together (Hat Tip: Joshua I). Turkey is ramping up communications with Syria amid the ongoing unrest there, with its intelligence chief visiting the neighboring country Sunday and its prime minister urging the Syrian leader to move toward reforms.So is Erdogan afraid that the Arab spring will come to Islamist Turkey? Hmmm.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Monday that he had talked to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad twice in the last three days and conveyed Turkey’s “sensitivity” on recent events in Syria.
“We advised Mr. Assad that responding to the people’s years-old demands positively, with a reformist approach, would help Syria overcome the problems more easily,” Erdoğan told reporters in a press conference before embarking on a visit to Iraq.
He added that the head of Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization, or MİT, Hakan Fidan, had visited Syria on Sunday.
Erdoğan said he advised al-Assad to “answer the people’s calls with a reformist, positive approach.”
“I did not get a ‘no’ answer,” he said. “We have a border of 800 kilometers [with Syria] and we have family relations. We cannot remain silent.”
Labels: Arab spring, Bashar al-Assad, Recep Tayyip Erdogan
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 6:32 PM
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Erdogan may worry a future Syrian regime won't look too kindly on Turkey's tight embrace of the tyrant Assad.
That's enough to change the geopolitical picture in the Middle East.
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