Turkey raises pressure on Syria - Middle East - Al Jazeera English

Turkey raises pressure on Syria - Middle East - Al Jazeera English: "Ahmet Davutoglu, Turkey's foreign minister, has urged the Syrian government to stop its bloody crackdown on anti-government protests and take steps to begin a process of reform.

Davutoglu spoke on Tuesday at a news conference in Ankara after a nearly seven-hour meeting with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus.

He said he and Assad discussed 'concrete steps' Syria should take to end its crackdown, though he offered few details of what steps the two had discussed or whether Assad had agreed to them.

'We discussed ways to prevent confrontation between the army and the people in the most open and clear way,'' Davutoglu said."

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