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Turkish prime minister expressed on Tuesday the fear that the situation in Syria could deteriorate and would end up in civil war between Alawite and the Sunni. The majority of the population in Syria confesses Sunni Islam, while the leadership of the country belongs to the Alawite sect. Bashar al-Assad is an Alawite, and the leaders of the army are Alawite.
On Tuesday, as the security forces of Al-Assad raided the outskirts of the capital in an attempt to crush the rebellion against the regime, the foreign ministers of the Arab League urged Assad to end crackdown in Syria, and implement the reforms the people demanded.
The secretary general of the Arab League, Nabil El-Arabi, said he agreed to send a delegation to Syria to see what was going on in the field. He visited the restive country last week. Amnesty International announced on Tuesday that 95 people were killed in detention in Syria since April.
In a different comment in front of thousands of people gathered in a square of Cairo, Erdogan said that civilian deaths have increased in numbers in Syria lately, adding that neither the Syrian people nor the Turkish government believe anymore in the capacity of Bashar al-Assad to implement changes in the country where he is said to have killed around 3,000 people.
Erdogan is in a Middle East political tour that is meant to assert Turkey as the leading power in the region. Speaking before the Arab League on Tuesday, Erdogan said that Turkey was in the heart of the political Arab world. His enthusiastic speech ended decades of isolation Turkey had to go through as the Arab League disapproved of the close ties between Turkey and Israel.
Now the ties are broken between Turkey and Israel and the Turkish PM is making the best of it, enjoying the support of the people in the Middle East, who see the conflict between Turkey and Israel as a sacrifice Turkey made for the sake of the Palestinians in Gaza.
Turkey has ambitions of regional leader and this seems the golden opportunity to seize control of the region. The moment is perfect because Turkey embodies now the ultimate aspiration of the Arab nations in the Middle East, that is a restive relation to Israel, the former ally, who is itself in the worst spot possible, as the king of Jordan said a few days ago.
Turkey is a more viable leader of the Arab world than Iran because most of the countries in the Arab world are Sunni, whereas Iran is Shia; most of the countries in the region favor a moderate Islam, as Turkey does; there is a dire hatred between Persians and Arabs, although they share the same Islam. Most of all, many of the Arab states are placed on the territory of the former Ottoman Empire, which creates political, cultural and religious bonds.
As he swept the Arab nations off their feet, Erdogan was, however, criticized by a few Syrian students in Cairo, who told him that he did not say in his address anything about the situation in Syria, and about the crimes committed by Assad’s regime.

Erdogan Addresses the Arab League

On Tuesday, the people of Syria protested in a “day of anger” against the fact that Russia continues to support the regime that are killing them. The Syrians warned Russia’s president Medvedev that the regime will perish but that the people of Syria will remain.
Russia opposed the proposition tabled at the UN Security Council that a resolution be issued against Assad’s regime that would have applied sanctions against Damascus; more than that, Russia proposed another resolution by which Assad was merely called to end the killing and to implement reforms.

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