Turkey Slams Lebanon for Not Condemning Syria Crackdown
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
Turkey on Sunday criticized the Lebanese government, saying it has not voiced “a single word” to condemn the Syrian regime’s deadly crackdown on dissent.
“Has Lebanon voiced a single word to express its solidarity with our Muslim brothers who are being slaughtered? No, only Turkey has raised its voice,” Turkey’s Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc said.
He also slammed Iran, Syria’s key regional ally, over its silence concerning the lethal repression.
Arinc was speaking at a meeting of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) party in Bursa, in Turkey's northwest.
Lebanon's government, which is led by Iranian- and Syrian-backed Hizbullah and its allies, has sidestepped taking a firm stand on the Syria crisis in what observers say is a bid to avoid potential sanctions or a spillover of the violence.
The United Nations estimates more than 5,400 people have been killed in Syria since March as al-Assad's regime cracks down on a popular revolt.
Thousands of Syrian refugees have fled to Lebanon but many say they do not feel safe in the neighboring country.
Syria controlled Lebanon from 1976-2005 and the two countries have yet to agree on an official demarcation of the 330-kilometer common border.
Despite the departure of Syrian troops from Lebanon under international and popular pressure in 2005, Damascus maintains a strong influence in Lebanon.
Turkey, once a close ally of neighboring Syria, has been at the forefront of international criticism against the Damascus regime and has also become a haven for many Syrian opposition activists.
05 February 2012, 21:05
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why would the lebanese gvt say a thing, they have so many interests with this regime, they don t want to commit suicide! they just say that nothing is going on in syria and that everything is under control! LOL
05 February 2012, 21:24
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"Strong Influence in Lebanon" Of course they do with the armed Shabiha just like the civilian cloth Moukhabarat Shabiha that keeps beating people in the tire until you are dead alive then thrown on the edge of the road because you got hit by a car. The regime is exactly the same as the zionist that shoots at the Palestinians with live ammunition. Hizbollah members are actively shooting from rooftops and those snipers attacks on civilians due to their target miss are done by the Lebanese militia which their flags are flown in the air everytime there is a demonstration in front of the Russian/Chinese embassies in Syria. These are facts since the Syrian Army is not trained for street fights as seen in Lebanon for over 30yrs and they'd rather destroy the entire city to the ground before they enter it. This is why the Leb Government won't speak up because it's supporting the Syrian regime on the ground.
05 February 2012, 22:40
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It is none of their business what we say. For once we keep our mouth shut, and this is the best thing for our national interest. When They helped americans invade Irak did we critisize their stance. They did it for their national interest.
06 February 2012, 03:20
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the filthy zionist information war department, through the nickname le phenicien, hallucinated a lot, too much for serious analysis.
check his post for a endless river of delusional obssesive hallucinations
06 February 2012, 04:02
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Fuck you, when have you ever condemned anyone killing your muslim brothers in Afghanistan and Palestine ?
You picked NATO over us. GTFO. x)
06 February 2012, 06:43
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Turkey!! All of a sudden they want to become fair, peacemakers, defenders of human rights and independence??? ya haram el-shoom! Where was Turkey when Syria was interfering and occupying Lebanon for almost 30 years?? Did it utter a word?? Come on turkey the world knows you much better, speciaaly the Arab and Muslim worlds. Up till now you are bombarding your Muslim Kurdish and alawite citizens because you don't want to give them equal rights and freedom the way you give it to the ethnic turks. The turkish government is the worst in the world. Ya mahla Idi Ameen. The least thing turkey should do in cases like this is SHUT UP and clean your own deeds.
06 February 2012, 19:10
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Azad, you're so right!!!! turkey in a peacemakers role?????? that's a joke..they are two face liars, openly they fight with Israel and secretly they make love with Israel....they should look at their past history, murderers & killers they are... and they have the goal to talk about human rights....
06 February 2012, 06:53
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Has Lebanon voiced a single word to express its solidarity with our Muslim brothers.???? Back to Ottoman days, they planted the seeds of religious bigotry 600 years ago and the Arabs are still suffering from it until today, and now they want to do it again. I wish they just referred to the victims as Syrian civilians or Syrian opposition and not use the religion label.
06 February 2012, 07:31
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Its funny how this man has the guts to say what he said. The so called free Syrian army are being trained in his country. They are coming from Jordan,Afghanistan, Pakistan and Libya. These are all facts You can see the interview in Libya. The revolutionaries said they were getting rid to come and help Syrian terrorists... Where where they when Israel has for the past 60 some years been killing Palestinians. Muslim Brothers you say ? IF so then go help your friends in Palestine.
06 February 2012, 09:53
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The honorable Lebanese condemned the Syrian crackdown when condemning it was the honorable thing to do. But Turkey was at its best behavior then and so was their friend Rafic Syria, may he rot in hell, who was busy handing the key of the capital to Ghazy Loubnan while using he keys of the coffers to rob the decent Lebanese. What goes around, comes around.
06 February 2012, 11:07
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they are paid by the syrians and iranians so why say anything about syria???
06 February 2012, 11:08
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they are traitors of the state and should be hanged from sleiman to berri, miqati, aoun and co all in downtown beirut with Hassouni at the front
06 February 2012, 20:18
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As a Muslim, it does annoy me when people label Lebanon as a Muslim country. I am personally proud of the rich diversity we have in such a small country....
Erdogan....it's not like you have done anything...
15 March 2012, 18:40
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what is funny is that people are just waking up to Erdogan's hypocrisy. he detains dozens of journalists under cover of some bizarre coup plot from 10 years ago; he bullies Cyprus because they discover gas; he kills his own Kurds and then condemns Israel; he lauds Palestinians, and then condemns Kurds; he talks about Lebanon and Syria, but watched as Leb Army destroyed a refugee camp in Tripoli; and while he condemns Israel, nothing in their non-military relationship has changed. his ex military cannot explain why their old allies are supposedly enemies. so weird. i could go on but he is not worth it.
