{"id":9484,"date":"2012-05-07T09:16:25","date_gmt":"2012-05-07T16:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=9484"},"modified":"2012-05-07T09:16:25","modified_gmt":"2012-05-07T16:16:25","slug":"erdogan-syrian-opposition-victory-not-far-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=9484","title":{"rendered":"Erdogan: Syrian opposition victory not far off"},"content":{"rendered":"

Erdogan: Syrian opposition victory not far off<\/strong>
\n7 May, 2012 – Al Akhbar<\/p>\n

Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan told Syrian refugees on Sunday that victory for the rebels in their country was not far off and President Bashar al-Assad was “losing blood” by the day.<\/p>\n

Erdogan, who has tried to rally international support against the government in neighbouring Syria over its 14-month crackdown against opponents, was met with enthusiastic applause and shouts of “Long live Erdogan” at the Kilis refugee camp.<\/p>\n

“Bashar is losing blood every day,” Erdogan told the crowd of about 1,500 people less than a kilometer from the border.<\/p>\n

“Your victory is not far off. We have just one issue: to stop the bloodshed and tears and for the Syrian people’s demands to be met.”<\/p>\n

Erdogan addressed the crowd from the top of a bus while military snipers watched from rooftops. Hundreds of police and soldiers guarded the road from the airport to the camp.<\/p>\n

His remarks came on the eve of a parliamentary election in Syria that Damascus has said shows reforms are under way.<\/p>\n

But fighting in Syria continues despite a UN-monitored ceasefire, brokered by former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, in place since last month. Fresh clashes erupted on Sunday between rebels and Assad’s forces in eastern Syria.<\/p>\n

“We maintain our hopes for the implementation of the Annan plan, but the bad news out of Syria is progressively undermining those hopes,” Erdogan later told a news conference.<\/p>\n

“Simply following the Annan plan will not bring about a resolution…A reform process that expands freedom within a parliamentary, constitutional system should start immediately.” …more<\/a><\/p>\n

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Erdogan: Syrian opposition victory not far off 7 May, 2012 – Al Akhbar Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan told Syrian refugees on Sunday that victory for the rebels in their country was not far off and President Bashar al-Assad was “losing blood” by the day. Erdogan, who has tried to rally international support against the more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[2955],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9484"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9484"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9485,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9484\/revisions\/9485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}