Turkish PM: Syria Crackdown Inhumane (& security force's treatment of women's corpses an "atrocity")

[Turborama]

Source: Al Jazeera English

Last Modified: June 10 2011 10:00

Turkey's prime minister has condemned Syria's crackdown on anti-government protesters as "inhumane'' and says Ankara could support a UN resolution against Damascus.

The semi-official Anatolia news agency quoted Recep Tayyip Erdogan as saying in an interview on ATV television late on Thursday that some images coming out of Syria were "unpalatable".

"Unfortunately, they (the regime of President Bashar al-Assad) are acting in an inhumane way," Anatolia reported on Friday. "The savagery right now... think about it, the images they are playing in the heads of the women they kill is so ugly, these images are hard to eat, hard to swallow," Erdogan told Anatolia. "I talked to Mr Assad four or five days ago. ... But they underestimate the situation," he said.

Erdogan described the treatment of the bodies of women slain by the security forces as an "atrocity". He also said the brutal crackdown on protesters was "unacceptable".

Read more: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2011/06/201161091735838652.html

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[al bupp]

1. What's the atrocity that Erdogan's refering to?

I missed that one, and a Google search only turned-up references to his allegation or the event where four protesting women were shot, nothing about what happened to their bodies afterward.

[provis99]

3. I dunno. Turkish atrocities against the Kurds, maybe?

[kirby]

2. Seriously?

The concern is not the fact that the woman are being murdered, but how their lifeless bodies are being treated afterwards?

[Kurska]

4. Turkey's military is much larger and more modern than Syria's.

If they really found it so unpalatable, they could end it all in a few weeks. What lip service he gives to human rights if dwarfed by the scale of his inaction. The threat of military action might even be enough to end it without a single shot being fired, but again actions not words can end this.

[roamer65]

5. Turkey has more guts than we do so far...

on this issue. We haven't even championed UN resolutions.