Turkey: 'Russia must be held accountable for the people it has killed’ in Syria

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Source: Business Insider

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday Russia must be held accountable for the people it has killed in Syria, arguing that Moscow and Damascus were together responsible for 400,000 deaths there, Dogan News Agency reported.

Speaking at a joint press conference with his Senegalese counterpart while on a state visit to the West African country,Erdogan also said Russia was engaged in an invasion of Syria and accused it of trying to set up a "boutique state" for its longtime ally President Bashar al-Assad.

"Russia must be held accountable for the people it has killed within Syria's borders," Dogan quoted him as saying. "By cooperating with the regime, the number of people they have killed has reached 400,000." His comments are likely to further enrage Moscow. Relations between Turkey, a NATO member, and Russia hit their worst in recent memory in November after Turkey shot down a Russian warplane Ankara said had violated Turkish airspace from Syria.
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Turkey, which has taken in more than 2.5 million refugees fleeing the Syrian war, wants Assad out and says only his removal can bring long-term peace.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/turkey-wants-russia-held-accountable-for-deaths-in-syria-2016-2

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Turkey has taken in 2.5 million refugees!!? Wow.

[forest444]

1. And Turkey's Hitler-loving PM must be held accountable for acting as ISIS' middle man for its oil.

http://observer.com/2016/02/deal-with-the-devil-turkey-props-up-isis-by-buying-its-stolen-oil/

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2. Turkey? Hahahhaa!!!

[zeemike]

3. Taking in the refugees and then sending them to Europe

Where did you think they came from?

But maybe he will next say that the US must be held responsible for the hundreds of thousands killed in Iraq.

[Little Tich]

4. The Russian intervention in the war in Syria only makes things worse.

Putin is a warmongering fascist and I don't trust his intentions in Syria.

[Wilms]

5. Wilms: Turkey must be held accountable for the Armenian people it has killed.

[JudyM]

6. +1

[pampango]

7. It is highly unlikely that war crimes will be prosecuted after the civl war. The crimes will just be

ignored or amnesty for them will be part of a negotiated settlement. It is great to have international laws against war crimes and crimes against humanity but their enforcement is a flawed human endeavor.

[independentpiney]

8. Turkey needs to be held responsible for its own people its killing

in its Kurdish areas along with turning a blind eye to ISIS using some of their border crossings. Acknowledging and expressing remorse for the Armenian genocide would be nice too. Erdogan and his neo-Ottoman Islamist party need to go as much or more than Bashar al Assad does.