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Thursday, February 09, 2012

Why Turkey is tightening the pressure on Assad - CNN.com

Why Turkey is tightening the pressure on Assad
By Fadi Hakura, Special to CNN
updated 11:51 AM EST, Thu February 9, 2012

Editor's note: Fadi Hakura is the associate fellow and manager of the Turkey Project at the London-based think-tank Chatham House. He has written and lectured extensively on Turkey's political, economic and foreign policy and the relationship between the European Union and Turkey.

(CNN) -- Syria is heading to an "intolerable situation" according to Turkey's hyperactive Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, whose country is at the forefront of global efforts to engineer the downfall of the Bashar Al-Assad leadership.

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