United States President Barack Obama and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan spoke by telephone yesterday “to organise attempts to speed a political transition in Syria,” the White House stated.
This “would let in the departure of (Syrian leader) Bashar al-Assad and be responsive to the legitimate calls for of the Syrian people,” the statement stated.
Obama and Erdogan shared out their concerns over the Syrian regime’s crackdown on confrontation “and the degenerating humanitarian conditions throughout Syria as a consequence of the regime’s atrocities.” Both promised to organise attempts to assist the growing numbers of Syrians displaced by the ferocity within Syria or forced to flee over the borderline to take refuse in Turkey or other nations in the region.
The statement stated US and Turkish teams “would stay in close contact on ways that Turkey and the United States may work collectively to promote a democratic transition in Syria.” Ankara has become a champion of the arising against Assad’s Syrian regime and has given refuge to large numbers of army defectors, who have formed the kernel of a rebel army, as well as tens of thousands of civilian refugees.
