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Friday, November 18, 2011

Turkey: World must 'hear screams' from Syria - Telegraph

Turkey: World must 'hear screams' from Syria
The world must urgently 'hear the screams" from Syria and do something to stop the bloodshed, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey's prime minister has said.

Syria is 'like a civil war'

By Richard Spencer, Adrian Blomfield and Alex Spillius

Turkey said it was seeking new transport routes to the Middle East that would bypass the increasingly politically isolated country.

Mr Erdogan said measures must be taken for the safety of energy supplies as well as global peace. Mr Erdogan, speaking at an international energy conference in Istanbul, did not specify any possible actions over Syrian President Bashar Assad's brutal repression of the country's 8-month-old uprising.

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