The slaughter committed by the Syrian ground forces on Thursday, with heavy weapons system against the Tremseh village, aroused strong reactions in Turkey on Friday.
Ayhan Sefer Üstün, chief of the parliamentary Human Rights Commission, and a Justice and Development Party (AK Party) deputy, has called on the world to cease being mere watchers to the slaughters in Syria, telling, “Let Hama not be other Srebrenica.” Marking that, should things carry on as they are, we’d in the future have to commemorate the victims in Syria as we have those slaughtered in Bosnia, Üstün pointed out, “All alternatives ought to be taken consideration to cease the killings.” He has also criticized the opposition parties for opposing the AK Party on the Syrian matter for the sake of opposition, and noted that by so acting they might be cursed by the victims of the current killings in Syria.
For Serhat Erkmen, a consultant to the Ankara-based believe tank Center for Middle Eastern Strategic Studies (ORSAM), slaughters of this kind ought to be anticipated to be accomplished by Syrian forces into the future, because the international community has went wrong to demonstrate strong confrontation to the Bashar al-Assad regime.
“The countries giving support to the Assad regime, such as Russia, China and Iran, know what they’re doing, and act consequently. But the other countries are ineffective to create a common policy, and act inconsistently,” Describing events in Syria as a blooded civil war, Erkmen cautioned, “The civil war might, at any moment, spread to the countries in the region, should Assad and the powers behind him hold it to be in their best interests.”
Şevket Kazan, chief consultant to the chairman of the Felicity Party (Saadet Partisi), has criticised the government for amputating communication with the Assad regime. “The government should have been in a attitude to talk to both sides in the battle in Syria. But it can not, because the government acts under the direction of the US Government,” he expressed. Questioning the government’s discourse that Turkey is the leader of the Islamic world, Kazan added, “Turkey can not do anything to arrest the bloodshed in Syria and keeps watching, while Kofi Annan has been maintaining his efforts for the 2 sides to achieve a compromise.”
