Baladi News
Turkey and other world powers would consider working with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad if he won a democratic election, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu told a conference in Qatar on Sunday.
Asked whether Turkey would work with Assad, Cavusoglu said Syria must hold an election. If Assad won, he told a conference in Doha and “if it is democratic election, and if it is a credible one then everybody should consider working with him.”
Cavusoglu added that the priority now is to establish a constitution for the country, and Syrians themselves have to draft the constitution.
He stressed the need for elections in Syria under the umbrella of the United Nations, and that the elections should be transparent and democratic, and that Syrians should choose their president.
Cavusoglu's statements faced different stances, where some twitters found it incompatible with the Turkish attitude which supports the Syrian Revolution and rejects the Syrian regime with all its symbols, and that the statements came in the wrong time. While others saw it as a political dodge, as Assad can never win a democratic election after killing hundreds of thousands of Syrians with his war machines, and destroying Syria.
Commenting on Cavusoglu's statements, the Syrian writer "Ahmed Abazid" said they are "dangerous and unacceptable statements in any context," pointing out that working with the biggest killer in modern times, who killed half a million Syrians and displaced half of the people, is a moral and humanitarian issue in the first place, "Hitler won democratically," he concluded.