Syrian
President Bashar al-Assad has said that his government knows that Turkey played
role in killing of Syrian people. He blames this on �some individuals� in
Turkish present government, after whom Syrian-Turkish relations would improve.
According to Mehr News Agency,
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad presented his opinions on Syrian crisis and
the future developments.
* Erdoğan's government transitory;
our ties with Turkish nation solid
To
a question on Syrian government policies on financial, political and weaponry
supports by some countries for Syrian opposition fighters, and terrorist groups
coming and going to these countries, Assad said that " some neighboring
countries standing with us may not protect their borders with Syria to cut flow
of weapons and fighters to Syria. Some ignore what happens in their borders,
and some others directly intervene.�
"We
should distinguish between the countries and their nations. The question is
what should be our position toward their nations or governments. Should we
tolerate and keep ties or resort to taking revenge? For example, Turkish
government position on Syria is clear. Turkey has directly intervened in
killing Syrian people. When we took a policy of mutual relations, we did not
see it in terms of individual statesmen. Individuals come and go.�
"We
see our 9 decades of crisis-prone relations with Turkey and, determined to
continue current stability, will not return our policies to the past for
ignorance of some politicians in Turkey.�
"Syria
highly evaluates relations with Turkish nation. They have expressed their
support for us since the outbreak of crisis, and have not swerved from their
direct path under the impact of media propaganda, and costly campaigns.�
"We
must think for nations, since governments are transitory. So, we should not
react before enough thinking, since nations would be our supporters, and any
government lacking popular legitimacy, would remain weak.�
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Israelis and Terrorists; two sides of a coin
"Armies
in the world support the countries. This is not only against foreign invasions,
but includes insider attacks. Any enemy in any region inside should be fought
against, especially army and the military forces should fight. The enemy this
time has launched a conspiracy from inside, not outside borders,� Assad
asserted. "Any Syrian working for the enemy would be enemy itself, and the
law would try any spying people, and execute them. When before the court, the
issue may be no longer emotional. Any Syrian working for enemies is enemy,
since the enemy is inside, our army has moved inside the country.�
On
the question that this attitude may damage the role of Syria in Resistance
front, Assad said that "currently, Syria is implementing Resistance
ideology. Some would say if Syria moves in line with Resistance front, why
would it act in Golan Heights? In response, I would say that �resistance� would
be breached when the government abandons its task of stabilizing the situation
inside, but it has not happened yet in Syria, but in Lebanon it did happen due
to war with Israel and the absence of the state. In these situations,
resistance was a duty. Whenever army and government do not accept their
responsibilities, Resistance will enter the fore in Syria.�
The
interviewer then asked President Assad that "some say that Syrian
developments were totally peaceful in its initial 5 months, and then it became
armed clash. Some others quoted you saying that after Ramadan, the situation
had become armed confrontation. What do you think of it?�
Assad
rejected such interpretation and asserted that "for a simple reason, it is
misguided. If Syrian developments were not armed confrontation, then how did
Syrian army have several soldiers dead in first week? Soldiers would not die
just due to people�s cries. This is not true. They were killed by armed
forces.�
He
also believed that the initial objective for providing support for opposition
was to create tensions between army and Syrian public, to incite the army to
kill more people, and spreading hate for the government forces among the
public. After failure in this, in Ramadan, terrorists launched military
campaigns to take strongholds in order to prevent Syrian government forces to
enter such regions as Bab Amr. After that their strongholds were destroyed in Bab
Amr and other regions they thought of as secure for them, they changed their
strategy and assassinated the citizens.�
Assad
pointed to sabotage operations by the armed rebels such as blockading the
connection roads, people�s daily needs such as bread, and exploding gas
pipelines, saying that the developments were military from the beginning.
"We bring the witness pictures that the armed rebels kill the people, but
they have rejected our claims, "he said. http://www.yjc.ir/en/news/8/syria-to-save-ties-with-turkish-nation-erdoğan-govt-transitory - �
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