Syria's Muslim Brotherhood open to Turkish 'role'

[talsor]

Syria's Muslim Brotherhood open to Turkish 'role'

ISTANBUL — The leader of Syria's exiled Muslim Brotherhood said Thursday that his compatriots would accept Turkish "intervention" in the country to resolve months of bloody unrest.

"The Syrian people would accept intervention coming from Turkey, rather than from the West, if its goal was to protect the people," Mohammad Riad Shakfa told a press conference.

"We may ask more from Turkey as a neighbour," he also said, without elaborating on the nature of the intervention which the Brotherhood might consider acceptable.
On Thursday, pro-government daily Sabah reported that the opposition Syrian National Council (SNC), together with the Muslim Brotherhood, had asked Turkey to establish a no-fly zone on the Syrian side of the shared border to protect Syrian civilians.

Mohammed Faruk Tayfur, political leader of the Muslim Brotherhood and a member of the SNC, declined to comment on the allegations, saying only that discussions were held on "every possible means" with several governments in order to stop violence.

He added that the governments and the SNC discussed how to increase political pressure on Assad and the possibility of an economic embargo against Syria, in a way that would not affect the people.
"We discussed every possible means available by international law to stop the killing of civilians," Tayfur said.
"We are trying to prevent the killings of civilians as we (try) to mobilise the international community," he said, while rejecting foreign intervention in Syria.

"If there is foreign intervention, something which we would not want... the entire responsibility rests with the dictatorial regime in Syria," he said.

Shakfa also said that the Syrian government can be isolated internationally if other countries withdrew their envoys from Damascus. "Syrian people will handle the rest on their own," he said.
The Muslim Brotherhood does not want Islamic rule in Syria, Shakfa said, but a new regime would refer to Islam.
"Justice, freedom and equality are also among the values of the Islamic order... As Muslims we will take Islam as a reference," he said.

Shakfa praised the rebel Free Syrian Army of defecting troops and its latest attack on government forces, while insisting the revolt in Syria was "peaceful."

The army defectors are "honourable soldiers" as they deserted after attacks against civilians, he said.
"Self defence is appropriate when one is attacked," Shakfa said.
The Free Syrian Army is led by a renegade colonel who took shelter in Turkey, Riyadh al-Asaad. The group intensified its operations against the regular army on Wednesday when it struck an intelligence base near Damascus.

The Syrian regime's crackdown on anti-government protests since mid-March has cost more than 3,500 civilian lives, according to UN figures.

[jjmuneer]

This won't be good for us Kurds.

[thearabchildren]

This wouldn't really be so good for Arabs either. Just because a US occupation might be worse than a Turkish occupation wouldn't make a Turkish occupation good. All occupations are problematic at best. A hypothetical problem-free occupation wouldn't really be an occupation, now would it? And anyway, look at the stupid Ikhwan thinking they're fooling anybody: Why choose a NATO-member state as your "alternative" to "the West"? Because as usual, the Ikhwan is just a tool of Saudi Arabia which is just a tool of the United States. And then they pretend to be anti-US or whatever. I doubt any Syrians who are not IN the Ikhwan are fooled by this, but I worry that Turkish people will be (regardless of affiliation with the AKP or the CHP or the MHP, as all share the same mythology about "Turkishness" and the same undiscussed biases against Kurds, which most of Turkish society shares, including a large portion of Kurds, which is not to say that nationalistic Kurds don't have their own biases, obviously).

Anyway, I hope no foreign state sends troops into Syria, for the sake of all Syrians, regardless of national affiliation.

[thearabchildren]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7p9Z_9ygwRE

Kurtlar Vadisi: Suriye is coming soon, about how Turkish military intervention in Syria is what's best for everyone (unlike US occupation, which is rightly recognised by Turks as wrong, Turkish occupation is awesome and human rights-y), because Turks are incapable of oppressing Kurds and Arabs, while Arabs and Kurds are incapable of ruling themselves (or each other, or, G-d forbid, Turks).

[New Corduene]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7p9Z_9ygwRE

Kurtlar Vadisi: Suriye is coming soon, about how Turkish military intervention in Syria is what's best for everyone (unlike US occupation, which is rightly recognised by Turks as wrong, Turkish occupation is awesome and human rights-y), because Turks are incapable of oppressing Kurds and Arabs, while Arabs and Kurds are incapable of ruling themselves (or each other, or, G-d forbid, Turks).

I thought you are joking about Kurtlar Vadisi: Suriye. But bloody hell! It's true, they are making a movie about it. Jesus Merriam Joseph, Mother of God...!!

[Azamat]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7p9Z_9ygwRE

Kurtlar Vadisi: Suriye is coming soon, about how Turkish military intervention in Syria is what's best for everyone (unlike US occupation, which is rightly recognised by Turks as wrong, Turkish occupation is awesome and human rights-y), because Turks are incapable of oppressing Kurds and Arabs, while Arabs and Kurds are incapable of ruling themselves (or each other, or, G-d forbid, Turks).

I thought you are joking about Kurtlar Vadisi: Suriye. But bloody hell! It's true, they are making a movie about it. Jesus Merriam Joseph, Mother of God...!!

I thought they were already shooting one about Palestine. And now another one, simultaneously? Good riddance... It seems they are obsessed about fictionalizing what they cannot do in real life

What an unbelievable, pseudo-macho culture.

[Kurdistano]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7p9Z_9ygwRE

Kurtlar Vadisi: Suriye is coming soon, about how Turkish military intervention in Syria is what's best for everyone (unlike US occupation, which is rightly recognised by Turks as wrong, Turkish occupation is awesome and human rights-y), because Turks are incapable of oppressing Kurds and Arabs, while Arabs and Kurds are incapable of ruling themselves (or each other, or, G-d forbid, Turks).

I thought you are joking about Kurtlar Vadisi: Suriye. But bloody hell! It's true, they are making a movie about it. Jesus Merriam Joseph, Mother of God...!!

I thought they were already shooting one about Palestine. And now another one, simultaneously? Good riddance... It seems they are obsessed about fictionalizing what they cannot do in real life

What an unbelievable, pseudo-macho culture.

good point and very true. i once had a discussion about a similar thing. Many turkish movies are avout the "backwardness" of Kurds as if their nation is ,uch more developed. but in reality they are only projecting their own backwardness on kurds. the same with historic events. ottoman turks are shown as brave and strong man while greeks, europeans as cowards who only can fight in big numbers. again projecting their own dirty characteristics on other. every child with just a bit historic knowledge knows that.

[thearabchildren]

Kurtlar Vadisi: Filistin was already made and released. I saw it in the cinema.

But I just wanted to point out how funny it is that a series whose main audience are supposedly Turkish nationalists and Pan-Turkists seems to be far more Ba`athist in its outlook at present. Where's Kurtlar Vadisi: Dağlı Karabağ (Nagorno-Karabakh), Kurtlar Vadisi: Kırgızıstan, Kurtlar Vadisi: Kırım, etc.

Too busy hating Kurds and loving Arabs to worry about Turks, eh?