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Jesus Malverde

(10,274 posts)
Wed Oct 21, 2015, 09:34 AM Oct 2015

The grand head of the ottoman empire has spoken..

Turkey ready to accept six-month transition period for Syria's Assad: officials

Turkey is ready to accept a political transition in Syria in which President Bashar al-Assad stays in symbolic power for six months before leaving office, and is discussing the plan with Western allies, two senior government officials said on Tuesday.

NATO member Turkey has long been one of Assad's fiercest critics, insisting that no lasting peace can be achieved in Syria without his removal from power.

"Work on a plan for Assad's departure is under way ... (Assad) can stay for six months and we accept that because there will be a guarantee of his departure," one of the officials told Reuters, speaking on condition of anonymity.

"We have moved forward on the issue to a certain degree with the United States and our other allies. There is not an exact consensus on when the six-month period would begin, but we think it won’t be too long."


http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/10/20/us-mideast-crisis-syria-turkey-idUSKCN0SE1Q220151020

So funny on so many levels. Now that your border is awash with sunni radicals you think you have a say in the matter. Fact is Turkey's regime change has been a colossal failure.
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