Meddling in Syria to Leave Negative Impacts on Turkey’s Credibility

A senior Iranian legislator cautioned Turkish officials of the negative impacts of Ankara’s interference in Syria on Turkey’s credibility among the regional nations.

Speaking on Saturday, Mousa Qazanfarabadi strongly criticized Turkey’s meddling in Syria, and stated that it is a violation of the international law and conventions.

Ankara has become an accomplice to the West’s interventionist policies in order to make trivial and temporary profits, but in the long term, the Turkish government will lose its credibility among the regional people, that lawmaker stated.

“The Turkish government’s measures with regards to Syria are against the international law and conventions and Ankara should put an end to these acts as soon as possible in order not to be hated more by the Syrian public opinion.”

On Saturday, the Syrian Foreign Ministry accused Turkey of hindering the Syrian political process put forward recently to solve the long-standing crisis.

The ministry’s remarks came in a letter sent to the United Nations about Turkey’s “destructive role” in the Syrian crisis, according to the state-run SANA news agency.

The ministry stressed that “Turkey has escalated its aggressive stances toward Syria by placing hurdles in the face of the political program aimed to solve the crisis.”

It charged that the Turkish government had practiced pressures on the Syrian opposition in exile to reject the political vision outlined by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad last month.

“Turkey has also turned its territories into centers for training, harboring, arming and funding armed terrorist groups, including al-Qaeda network,” it said.

Syria has been experiencing unrest since March 2011 with organized attacks by well-armed gangs against Syrian police forces and border guards being reported across the country.

Hundreds of people, including members of the security forces, have been killed, when some protest rallies turned into armed clashes.

The government blames outlaws, saboteurs, and armed terrorist groups for the deaths, stressing that the unrest is being orchestrated from abroad.

In October 2011, calm was eventually restored in the Arab state after President Assad started a reform initiative in the country, but Israel, the US and its Arab allies are seeking hard to bring the country into chaos through any possible means. Tel Aviv, Washington and some Arab capitals have been staging various plots in the hope of increasing unrests in Syria.