TheNewsTurkey @TheNewsTurkey Turkey's Syria Predicament - Al-Monitor http://goo.gl/8p43a Followed by Samuel Lemieux and 1 other Collapse Reply Retweet Favorite Buffer More 8:07 p.m. - Feb 17, 2013 · Details Turkey's Syria Predicament Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu attends a foreign ministers meeting ahead of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) summit in Cairo, Feb. 4, 2013. (photo by REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany) Print FONT SIZE By: Cengiz Çandar for Al-Monitor Turkey Pulse. Posted on February 17. READ IN TURKISH Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu in a joint press conference with the Greek Foreign Minister Dimitris Avramopoulos lambasted the European Union, United Nations and the international community, which means the United States and Europe. It was all about Syria. Davutoglu said 70,000 people have died so far in Syria and ironically asked: "Does this have to reach 700,000 to take action?" He then appealed for "More pressure." This was a hopeless appeal. Who is going to take action? EU? The U.N.? Undefined international community with no known sanction mechanisms? Since none of them has not taken any action until now, why would they do now? Doesn't Davutoglu know that his appeal will fall on deaf ears? Of course he does. Therefore, we have to see his appeal not as actually seeking a result, but Turkey's shifting the responsibility for the bloody panorama in Syria to the U.N. and the West after being harshly criticized by the Turkish public opinion for its Syria policy. The Security Council couldn't take any meaningful initiative on Syria because of the Russian and Chinese vetoes. There appears to be no reason for these two...
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