Turkey not to remain indifferent to a massacre in its region

WASHINGTON (A.A) - Turkey's foreign minister said on Thursday that Turkey would not remain indifferent to a massacre in its geography. Ahmet Davutoglu said Turkey wanted to set up an international platform for solution of Syria crisis, and to that end was holding consultations with several countries. "Turkey cannot remain indifferent to a massacre in its region even if everybody remains silent and indifferent," Davutoglu addressed students at the George Washington University. Davutoglu said Turkey was trying to create a new international awareness. Minister Davutoglu enumerated Turkey's third-stage strategy towards Syria as bilateral dialogue, a regional initiative and an international solidarity regarding Syria. Davutoglu said Turkey had talks with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad as part of the first stage but hopes faded as al-Assad did not implement a road map. Then, Turkey cooperated with the Arab League as a regional initiative, and the Arab League did everything it could for a solution and produced plans but Syria did not keep its promises, Davutoglu said. Davutoglu said as a third step, Turkey, Arab League and some other countries applied to the United Nations (UN) Security Council and tried to create an international solidarity, but Russia and China caused a deadlock with their veto. "Therefore, we are today making a new evaluation with the Arab League, and I will take up this issue with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Monday," Davutoglu said.  Davutoglu said Turkey wanted to create an international platform to support Syrian people and be in solidarity with them against the bloody massacre.  On terrorism, Davutoglu said Turkey did not back war or violence either in its region or the world, but on the contrary it carried out a peace democracy and exerted active efforts for solution of problems.   Davutoglu said citizens of Kurdish origin had the same rights as all other citizens in Turkey,  No country could tolerate terrorist attacks against civilians, he said. Davutoglu said, "we may tolerate all views as we are a democratic society, however nobody, neither Americans nor Europeans, no democratic country can tolerate terrorist attacks. Terrorist organization PKK, like all dictatorial regimes in the region, is the archaic structure of the Cold War." Minister Davutoglu said Turkey was respecting all identities and nobody could be separated according to sects or ethical origin, adding that problems would be solved altogether. (Reporting by Mehmet Toroglu and Bariskan Unal)