Turkey and US to create Syria task force
By Damien Cave
| New York Times
August 12, 2012
ISTANBUL — Turkey and the United States agreed Saturday to accelerate preparations for the possible fall of Syria’s president, Bashar Assad, creating a formal bilateral team to manage helping the opposition, providing aid to fleeing refugees, and planning for worst-case outcomes that include a chemical weapons attack.
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