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End of Syrian regime matter of time: Turkish minister

Thursday, December 20, 2012
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HELSINKI: The fall of the Syrian regime is “only a matter of time”, Turkey’s foreign minister said on Wednesday, calling on other countries to help make the transition period as brief as possible.
“It is clear that if a regime loses legitimacy and fights against its own people, that regime will lose that fight,” Ahmet Davutoglu said at a press conference after meeting with his Finnish counterpart Erkki Tuomioja in Helsinki.

“As to timing: now we can be more sure than before... it is only a matter of time. But it is up to the international community how to make the transition as fast as possible... in order to prevent further disasters,” he added.

The Turkish foreign minister said he was not in favour of international military intervention in the Syrian conflict, echoing the views of Tuomioja, who said he didn’t think such a move was “on the table at all”.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights puts the overall death toll from the 21-month uprising against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime at more than 43,000 people, based on accounts from activists and medics on the ground.

Meanwhile, Syria’s Interior Minister Mohammad Ibrahim al-Shaar arrived in Lebanon on Wednesday for medical treatment following a bomb attack on his ministry in central Damascus a week ago, security sources said.

Syrian rebels said Shaar had been seriously wounded in last Wednesday’s attack when a car bomb and two other explosives were detonated at the main gate of his ministry.

The Lebanese sources gave no details of Shaar’s condition, but said it was not critical. A rebel commander confirmed the news and said the Shaar did not seem to be in a critical condition.

As many as 100,000 Palestinians may have fled a Damascus refugee camp after deadly clashes there, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees said Wednesday.

“People are still leaving in droves,” UNRWA deputy chief of staff Lisa Gilliam told AFP, adding that the organisation estimated that around two thirds of the some 150,000 residents of Yarmuk camp appeared to have left.

She stressed that the 100,000 figure was only an estimate, adding that the violence in the camp in the south of the Syrian capital was “a humanitarian crisis that is still playing itself out”.

On Sunday, warplanes waged their first air strike on Yarmuk since the start of Syria’s conflict in March 2011, killing at least eight civilians. Both rebels and pro-government fighters have since entered and fierce fighting has rocked the tiny camp.

The fleeing Palestinians were going to other parts of Damascus or further afield in Syria, taking shelter in schools and UNRWA offices, and were also increasingly fleeing across the border to Lebanon, Gilliam said.


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