"Chairman of Turkish Republican People's Party: We Will Confront...

"Chairman of Turkish Republican People's Party: We Will Confront Erdogan Policies against Syria

Mar 19, 2012

ANKARA, (SANA) – The chairman of the Turkish Republican People's Party, Kemal Kilicdaroglu, strongly criticized the stances of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan against Syria, announcing the Turkish opposition's determination to confront these serious policies.

Kilicdaroglu stressed the Turks' rejection of interfering in Syria's affairs, adding that the West avoids interfering in Syria and pushes Turkey into this dangerous adventure.

He added that the Republican People's Party which prevented the deployment of the US troops in Turkey after the war on Iraq in March 2003, will confront any Turkish interference in Syria.

Kilicdaroglu indicated that Syria is a neighboring country and the Syrian and Turkish people are brothers, stressing that "We want to live side by side in peace". He called upon all sides to reconsider the whole developments in the situation in Syria and face the policies which don't serve the interests of the Turkish people.

Meantime, the Turkish Cumhuriyet newspaper quoted different sources in Turkey as saying that about 3000 Libyan armed men and al-Qaeda members infiltrated the Syrian-Turkish borders to conduct armed operations in the Syrian territories.

R. Raslan / Ghossoun "

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