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Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced on Saturday that Turkey has seized a Syrian-flagged ship full of weapons, promising that the Turkish navy would confiscate all weapons heading toward the embattled regime of Bashar al-Assad.
Erdogan did not specify where and when the ship was confiscated, nor where they came from, but he said no weapons would go to Syria through Turkish land, air or space. His stance is in consistency with his latest criticism against the regime in Damascus, and with his new posture of his country, that is of key player in the Middle East.
The news was transmitted by Turkish news agency Anatolia and marks, according to experts, the hardening of ties between the former close allies.
Earlier this week, the Turkish PM had said he had no more contacts with the Syrian leadership and warned with sanctions against the restive country. Earlier this month, a conference of the Syrian opposition was hosted in Istanbul, and on that occasion a national transitional council was formed, similar to that of Libya.
Before he embarked for New York to attend the UN General Assembly, Turkish foreign minister Ahmet Davutoglu, considered by many the mastermind behind Turkish foreign policy, said that Bashar al-Assad had lied to him, and that he could not be trusted to be the one to continue as president of Syria.
He referred to the visit he paid last month, when he delivered a message from Ankara, by which he was urging Assad to put a stop to the killing of civilians. Upon his return, Davutoglu told the press that within two weeks al-Assad would have ended his crackdown on the people.
The Syrian president announced the end of the field operations after two weeks, and promised that free elections would be held in February. The people in the streets of Syria however continued to demand his ouster, which compelled him to bring back the troops in the streets of the main cities, rising the death toll to more than 2,200 people killed in six months.
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