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| Turkey Threatens to Cut Power to Syria, Halts Oil Search |
| 2011-11-16 |
| [An Nahar] Turkey said Tuesday it has halted joint oil exploration with Syria and threatened to cut energy supplies to its neighbor as relations sour over the Syrian regime's bloody crackdown on demonstrators. "We are currently exporting electricity (to Syria). If the situation continues like this, we may be in a position to revise all these decisions," Energy Minister Taner Yildiz said. Turkey, once a close ally of Damascus ...The City of Jasminis the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the world. It has not always been inhabited by the same set of fascisti... , has been exporting electricity to Syria since 2006. Yildiz also said that Turkey's Petroleum Corporation (TPAO) has stopped exploration with the Syrian national oil company in six wells, according to the Anatolia news agency. The minister's remarks come in the wake of weekend attacks on Turkish diplomatic missions in three Syrian cities. Thousands of pro-regime protestors armed with knives and batons attacked the missions in Damascus as well as the cities of Aleppo ...For centuries, Aleppo was Greater Syria's largest city and the Ottoman Empire's third, after Constantinople and Cairo. Although relatively close to Damascus in distance, Aleppans regard Damascenes as country cousins... and Latakia on Saturday over Turkey's support for an Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... decision to suspend Syria. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said earlier Tuesday that Ankara had abandoned hope that Syria would respond to international demands to halt violence and initiate democratic reforms. Erdogan, once a close political ally and a personal friend of Syrian leader Bashir al-Assad, has for months expressed frustration at Assad's failure to listen to his people as the corpse count in Syria mounts. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Can't we just turn Syria over to the French to run? |
| Posted by: American Delight 2011-11-16 21:04 |