...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...
at a meeting in Cairo, Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said Sunday.
"Turkey is supporting the decisions and measures taken by the vaporous Arab League against Syria," Davutoglu was quoted as saying by the Anatolia news agency on the sidelines of the Cairo meeting, to which non-Arab Turkey was invited.
Davuoglu said the Arab League and Turkey were "in full agreement" concerning the Syrian crisis.
"Nobody can expect Turkey and the Arab League to remain silent on the killings of civilians and the Syrian regime's increasing oppression of innocent people," he said.But the minister emphasized that the Syrian crisis should be handled in a way that would not lead to any outside intervention.
"I hope the Syrian administration will understand our message and the problem will be resolved within the family," he said.
On Sunday, Arab foreign ministers agreed a list of sweeping sanctions designed to cripple the regime of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir
Pencilneckal-Assad,
Lord of the Baath...
which has defied international pressure to halt a bloody crackdown on protests.