Friday, 10 February 2012WASHINGTON (A.A) - Turkey's foreign minister said on Thursday that Turkey would not remain indifferent to a massacre in its geography.
Ahmet Davutoglu said Turkey wanted to set up an international platform for solution of Syria crisis, and to that end was holding consultations with several countries.
"Turkey cannot remain indifferent to a massacre in its region even if everybody remains silent and indifferent," Davutoglu addressed students at the George Washington University.
Davutoglu said Turkey was trying to create a new international awareness.
Minister Davutoglu enumerated Turkey's third-stage strategy towards Syria as bilateral dialogue, a regional initiative and an international solidarity regarding Syria.
Davutoglu said Turkey had talks with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad as part of the first stage but hopes faded as al-Assad did not implement a road map.
Then, Turkey cooperated with the Arab League as a regional initiative, and the Arab League did everything it could for a solution and produced plans but Syria did not keep its promises, Davutoglu said.
Davutoglu said as a third step, Turkey, Arab League and some other countries applied to the United Nations (UN) Security Council and tried to create an international solidarity, but Russia and China caused a deadlock with their veto.
"Therefore, we are today making a new evaluation with the Arab League, and I will take up this issue with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Monday," Davutoglu said.
Davutoglu said Turkey wanted to create an international platform to support Syrian people and be in solidarity with them against the bloody massacre.
On terrorism, Davutoglu said Turkey did not back war or violence either in its region or the world, but on the contrary it carried out a peace democracy and exerted active efforts for solution of problems.
Davutoglu said citizens of Kurdish origin had the same rights as all other citizens in Turkey,
No country could tolerate terrorist attacks against civilians, he said.
Davutoglu said, "we may tolerate all views as we are a democratic society, however nobody, neither Americans nor Europeans, no democratic country can tolerate terrorist attacks. Terrorist organization PKK, like all dictatorial regimes in the region, is the archaic structure of the Cold War."
Minister Davutoglu said Turkey was respecting all identities and nobody could be separated according to sects or ethical origin, adding that problems would be solved altogether.
Turkey's fm says cold war structures should be erased from region
Turkey's foreign minister said on Thursday that Cold War structures should be erased from the Middle East.
Ahmet Davutoglu said Turkey wanted Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad to be the Mikhail Gorbachev in Syria however he preferred to become the Slobodan Milosevic in Syria.
Davutoglu said the world had faced three major tremors in the last two decades, including "geopolitical tremor" after the dissolution of the former Soviet Union, "security tremor" after the 9/11 attacks, and "economic-political tremor" that occurred in 2011.
"All these tremors are the natural outcome of lack of a new international economic, political and cultural order that we need in the post Cold War era," Davutoglu addressed students at the George Washington University.
Davutoglu said, "we did not have a new set of norms or a new institutional structure to respond these crises since the Cold War."
The foreign minister said the clash in the Middle East was between the Cold War structure and the new dynamic powers of the society, not between Sunnis and Shiites, Muslim and non-Muslim, Arab and non-Arab, and Western or non-Western.
Davutoglu said Hosni Mubarak, Bashar al-Assad, Bin Ali and Moammar Gadhafi were all continuation of Cold Ward ideology, which had to end in 1990s.
Everybody had to support developments in the Arab world, Davutoglu said.
Davutoglu said, "if head of a state leaves office through peaceful methods, that regime is democratic, but if there is no other former head of a state in a country, that country is autocratic. Look at Gadhafi, Saddam Hussein, Saleh or Mubarak in the Middle East, there are no other president or prime minister before these people in those countries."
Minister Davutoglu said Turkey was popular in Arab world, and Premier Recep Tayyip Erdogan was welcomed cheerfully in Cairo and Libya because of Turkey's democracy, economic success and active foreign policy through which Turkey raised its voice against any type of injustice in the world.
Moreover, Davutoglu said if Turkey had become a member of the European Union (EU), the union could have had a stronger and more dynamic economy and could have become a more efficient and geopolitical power in the world.
Davutoglu also said Turkey still maintained its EU integration target.
*(Reporting by Mehmet Toroglu and Bariskan Unal) |
Friday, 10 February 2012
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