Turkey's foreign minister on Friday sent a terse warning to the international community to take action immediately and push the Security Council to speak "with one voice" to force Syria to stand down.
"You waited for years during the 1990s when people were massacred in Bosnia. Do not make the same mistake in Syria," Ahmet Davutoglu told a Brussels meeting hosted by European Policy Center and the Turkish Confederation of Businessmen and Industrialists, TUSKON.
Davutoglu warned that death toll mounted daily in Syria in what he said an escalating dose of violence from sniper fire on protestors to siege and heavy shelling of cities in an outright war on the Syrian people.
"Assad regime is trying to buy time by saying that he will return to democracy. And that is the way of the dictators. Do not fall in for that," Davutoglu said.
Once a close ally of its southern neighbor, Turkey had strongly shunned Assad regime and started imposing sanctions when Damascus rejected repeated calls for reform and launched a violent crackdown on the opposition which according to the United Nations had killed more than eight thousand people over the past year.
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