BALADI NEWS
Ankara stressed Wednesday that mounting regime bombardments on Syria's last opposition stronghold, Idlib, put at risk the political solution, which is in its final stages.
"First of all, the aggressive stance of the regime should change. The attacks should stop. At a time when the political solution talks are ongoing and a lot of ground was covered for the establishment of the Constitutional Committee, the aggressiveness of the regime may spoil everything," Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu told reporters yesterday.
Pointing out that the guarantor countries, Iran and Russia have a responsibility to stop the regime, Çavuşoğlu emphasized that the reciprocal harassment on the ground should be investigated by a joint working group as soon as possible.
Following eight months of calm provided by the Sochi deal, the bombardment was reinitiated on April 26, killing and injuring hundreds of people. Within a week it displaced more than 150,000 people, leaving the province deserted. Residential areas were destroyed by indiscriminate attacks while numerous educational and health facilities collapsed or were rendered unusable after being targeted by airstrikes.
Source: Daily Sabah.