Turkey’s Gul:Syria has reached ‘point of no return’

urkish President Abdullah Gul accused Syria’s government today of using oppression and violence against its people, saying the situation there had reached a “point of no return”.

“We exerted enormous efforts in public and behind closed doors in order to convince the Syrian leadership to lead the democratic transition,” Gul (picture) said in a speech hosted by Wilton Park, a British foreign policy thinktank.




“Despite all this the Baath regime continues to use oppression and violence on its own people. Violence breeds violence. Now, unfortunately, Syria has come to a point of no return,” he said.

The fate of Syria was important for the entire region, since the country sat on sectarian fault lines, Gul said. “Defining this democratic struggle along sectarian, religious and ethnic lines would drag the w