Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on Tuesday that Turkey rejects any dialogue with the Syrian regime. Before that Moscow called for negotiations with Damascus as the only way to end the increasing conflict.
“There is no point in engaging in dialogue with a regime that continues to carry out such a massacre against its own people, even during (the Muslim festival of) Eid al-Adha,” he said.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov urged the West and regional players to start negotiating with President Bashar al-Assad.
“Hardly anything will be accomplished without dialogue with the government, and that is the only problem that remains in the path towards a political process,” Lavrov said after a meeting with Lakhdar Brahimi, the international peace envoy for Syria.
Brahimi will present new proposals to the U.N. Security Council in November to push for talks between Assad and the opposition.
“What matters now is to encourage peace through the strongest messages. We had maintained our relationship with the Syrian regime for months and delivered messages of dialogue,” said Davutoglu.
Davutoglu also demanded a shifting process in Syria in which “people who were not involved in the bloodshed against Syrian people will play a role.”
Recall that Turkey has recently been in dialogue also with Iran and Russia, supporters of the Assad regime.
