Turkey Backs Arab League Sanctions of Syria
Turkey will support a raft of sanctions on neighbor Syria agreed by the Arab League at a meeting in Cairo, Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said Sunday.
"Turkey is supporting the decisions and measures taken by the Arab League against Syria," Davutoglu was quoted as saying by the Anatolia news agency on the sidelines of the Cairo meeting, to which non-Arab Turkey was invited.
Davuoglu said the Arab League and Turkey were "in full agreement" concerning the Syrian crisis.
"Nobody can expect Turkey and the Arab League to remain silent on the killings of civilians and the Syrian regime's increasing oppression of innocent people," he said.
But the minister emphasized that the Syrian crisis should be handled in a way that would not lead to any outside intervention.
"I hope the Syrian administration will understand our message and the problem will be resolved within the family," he said.
On Sunday, Arab foreign ministers agreed a list of sweeping sanctions designed to cripple the regime of President Bashar al-Assad, which has defied international pressure to halt a bloody crackdown on protests.
Source: Agence France Presse
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