Via FLC
"...Davutoglu said that Turkey had tried to engage the Assad regime last year on a reform plan..."We hoped Assad could be a 'Gorbachev," Davutoglu said, referring to the Russian leader who oversaw the 'glasnost' period of democratic reforms in the former Soviet Union. "But instead he wanted to be Milosevic," he continued, referring to the late Serbian strongman who pursued a genocidal campaign against Bosnia's ethnic Muslims and Croats, and oppressed Kosovo's ethnic Albanian population.
Davutoglu said he was disappointed that Russia and China had vetoed a UN Security Council resolution... But he said Turkey had not entirely given up hope that it may still be possible to get a UN resolution on Syria in the coming days...
It would be premature to call for a Libya-style NATO military intervention in Syria at this time, Davutoglu said. But he noted that events were moving very quickly on the ground, and that it was not inconceivable that the situation could look different in a few weeks time.
The Turkish envoy's visit to Washington comes during a particularly bright period in American-Turkish relations, with the U.S. and Turkey working closely on Syria, the Arab spring, Afghanistan, Iraq, and beyond. Davutoglu also alluded to recent consultations between himself, Iranian officials and unspecified western interlocutors over a possible updated confidence building measure regarding Iran's nuclear program. What is needed, he said, is for both sides to overcome substantial mistrust..."
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