‘Turkey will not stand by the wrongdoing in Syria’ http://uprootedpalestinians.blogspot.com/2011/06/turkey-will-not-stand-by-wrongdoing-in.html

Just two days after Erdoğan’s remarks, a pro-regime Syrian official in Damascus said unceasing unrest in the country is part of a Western conspiracy that aims to put the region under Turkish control. “The West wants to put the region under Turkish control like in the Ottoman days,” the pro-regime figure in Damascus was quoted as saying in an article published on June 12 in Abu Dhabi-based daily The National. The report said an anti-Turkey backlash is now under way in Syria, with state-controlled media accusing Ankara of trying to resurrect the Ottoman Empire and re-establish control over the Middle East.“Turkey is a NATO member and embodies a safe kind of Islam for the West, so they have done a deal to give everything to Ankara,''“The plot will not work in the end. Syria still has some cards. It has Iran and Hezbollah.”