Istanbul: Turkey has threatened to cut off the supply of electricity to its neighbors, Syria, Tuesday, when the Damascus regime came under increasing pressure from the Arabic, Turkish, and European governments in North America for their murderous repression during the pro-democracy demonstrators.
“We provide them (Syria) with a power currently. If they stay on this path, we may be forced to reconsider all these decisions, “Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yildiz said on Tuesday, Anatolia after the Turkish semi-official agency.
Turkey, once a close political ally and a strong trading partner of Syria, welcomed the decision of the Arab League in Syria last week to suspend the membership of the alliance.
A few days after the humiliating accusation, said a senior official of the Arab League to CNN, the group floated a plan to try to deploy about 500 observers in order to protect civilians in Syria. According to the UN more than 3,500 Syrians have been killed since anti-government protests erupted in March.
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“Directed at a meeting of Dr. Nabil Al Araby, the Secretary General of the Arab League, held Monday, decided the Arab League and Arab human rights organizations have a mechanism to protect Syrian civilians sending a delegation of 500 representatives of the Arab media, and military observers to Syria in order to document the situation on the ground said, “the official on CNN, speaking on condition of anonymity.
The official said that the plan had to be at an emergency meeting of ministers of the Arab League foreigners in Morocco’s capital on Wednesday presented.
Jordanian Foreign Minister Nasser Judah, CNN has confirmed that his government had received an invitation to contribute to representatives of the proposed observer mission.
“We are currently investigating,” Judah said in a telephone conversation with CNN Tuesday. “He checks could be tomorrow,” he said in the meeting of Arab League foreign ministers expected in Rabat.
Monday, King Abdullah of Jordan the first Arab leader to publicly call Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to resign.
“If Bashar has the interests of his country, he would resign, but would also have the ability to meet and begin a new phase of Syrian politics,” Abdullah said in an interview with the BBC.
Monday night, a crowd of several hundred supporters of the Syrian regime for a demonstration outside the walls of the Jordanian embassy in Damascus together.
Although several protesters tried to tear the Jordanian flag, Judah said the protest was nonviolent.
The scene was very different on Saturday. Hours after the Arab League, Syria has suspended membership, pro-government mobs attacked simultaneously by several diplomatic missions of Arab countries and Turkey in the Syrian cities of Damascus, Aleppo and Latakiya. Turkish media showed pictures of Syrian demonstrators tore down a Turkish flag.
“You, Bashar, who has hundreds (of people) in prison for those who attacked the Turkish flag and punished, they must find,” said Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, speaking to al-Assad. Up ‘in a few months ago, Erdogan usually after the Syrian president as his friend and brother. But in the wake of the attacks against the embassies on Saturday, said Turkey had no choice but to evacuate members of his family as a diplomat in Syria.
“Bashar al-Assad was the tragic end, the leaders who declared war on their people to see fulfilled,” said Erdogan at a meeting of his party in the Turkish capital on Tuesday. “Do not create and order removal of a future can be built on the blood of innocents. The story of leaders such as those who remember feed on blood. And you, Assad will be directed to the development of such a page. ”
Foreign Minister of Syria gave a public apology for the rare attacks against the embassies Monday at a press conference in Damascus.
But Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem also described the decision of the Arab League to suspend Syria a “not very dangerous,” the agency Syrian SANA news of the state. He accused Syria of ignoring the release of the league of 553 prisoners as part of a peace agreement that had already contacted the Arab League.
If you strike a familiar note of defiance, al-Moallem vowed that “Syria is – despite what some of the brothers throw -. At the heart of Arabism and its impregnable fortress ”
Suspended from the Arab League, Damascus has a special summit to discuss the issue. This initiative was rejected Tuesday by the Arab Gulf States.
“The holding of an Arab summit is now meaningless,” said Abdul Latif Al-Zayani, the head of the Gulf Cooperation Council, after the Kuwait News Agency.
As it is on the defensive and abroad, were over Damascus on its historical ally of Russia, who was recently in China, a veto against a draft UN resolution, Syria for alleged human rights violations against the anti-government protesters to punish.
Leader of the Syrian opposition, the National Council met with Russian diplomats in Moscow Tuesday to try to drive a wedge between the two allies. This initiative, however, seemed to have failed.
President of the Burhan Ghalioun later told reporters in Moscow that the discussions had been “very positive” but added that the Russian government does not change its position, according to the Interfax news agency.
In the middle of the war, the rapid escalation of diplomatic relations between Syria and foreign opponents to the cycle of protests and violence continued unabated in Syria.
At least four people by security forces, including two children were killed, said the opposition of local coordinating committees. Meanwhile, the state agency, the Syrian News reported that two members of the charge were killed by “armed terrorists” in southern Syria on Monday. SANA also reported that the tracks were planted by a series of bombs along a railway line in northern Syria, on Monday damaged.
Observers warn the protest movement in Syria, who fought peacefully for months, is increasingly “militarized” as more and more soldiers desert, the Syrian army, and come with the opposition.
The last officer to his defection known was a man in uniform has led to a YouTube video as a lawyer and military colonel Arafar Hamoud al-Rasheed.
“I announce my defection from the Syrian Arab Army, having been committed in a gang in the hands of the most heinous crimes of the regime, killing women, children and seniors and torture of unarmed citizens,” said Hamoud, his military identification systems card instead of the camera.
Several refugees told CNN they had met Syrian Hamoud, having fled recently for a series of refugee camps on the Turkish side of the border with Syria.
Hamoud was announced that he was free to join the Syrian army, a group of army deserters who have declared war on the Syrian regime.
Monday brought the opposition-aligned Syrian Observatory for Human Rights 81 people in clashes across the country were killed, several injured as a result of collisions occur between the army and the Syrian security forces around renegade the troubled border town of Deraa. CNN can not independently confirm these reports because the Syrian government has repeatedly rejected visa applications journalist.
In the meantime, the EU sanctions against 18 other accused Syrians, “the organization of violence against demonstrators.”
Most people in a November 14 EU-were appointed settlement officers in military intelligence and the head of a “militia of the family” and three members of the so-called “Syrian military electronics.” All are now in a freezing of assets in Europe for alleged “violence against demonstrators in Syria.”
The move was welcomed by Marietje Schaake, a Dutch member of Parliament.
“The EU sanctions designed to show members of the Syrian Army, electronics, the use of ICT (information and communication) as weapons is taken seriously,” Schaake said in an e- mail to CNN. “The Syrian army is not only the electronics inside Syria, but acts in the world. The EU can and must do much more to their own businesses, the provision of ICT” weapons “to the Syrian army and electronic charge of their employees to draw. ”
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2011/11/15/world/meast/syria-isolation/index.html?hpt=wo_c1
