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Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Syria alleging sectarian war to mask power struggle: Turkish official | Reuters

Syria alleging sectarian war to mask power struggle: Turkish official

By Tom Heneghan, Religion Editor

ISTANBUL | Tue Sep 11, 2012 5:01am EDT

(Reuters) - Turkey believes Damascus is now portraying the Syrian crisis as a Sunni-Shi'ite conflict to mask President Bashar al-Assad's loss of political authority, according to a senior adviser to Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan.

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