{"id":17237,"date":"2012-03-24T13:58:10","date_gmt":"2012-03-24T11:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=17237"},"modified":"2012-03-24T13:58:10","modified_gmt":"2012-03-24T11:58:10","slug":"socialist-international-urgent-syria-6512","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/socialist-international-urgent-syria-6512\/","title":{"rendered":"Socialist International: Urgent action needed on Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Delegates from 21 European and Middle Eastern socialist parties attended a meeting of the Socialist International in Istanbul on Friday, discussing democratization efforts in Arab Spring states and the growing humanitarian crisis in Syria.<\/h2>\n

\u201cWe are alarmed by events in Syria and believe that a ceasefire must immediately be granted and an end to the international community’s deadlock must be achieved quickly,\u201d said Socialist International President and former Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou. \u201cThe burden for the violence is now squarely on the Syrian regime, whose actions we strongly condemn.\u201d<\/p>\n

Republican People’s Party Chairman (CHP) and conference host Kemal Kilicdaroglu meanwhile cautioned against foreign intervention in Syria, saying that outside powers would quickly turn the year-long struggle between Damascus and a growing opposition movement into a \u201cbloody civil war.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kilicdaroglu’s party has reacted harshly to Ankara’s hints that it would participate in an UN-backed \u201chumanitarian intervention\u201d in Syria and recently suggested that \u201cimperialist powers\u201d are pressing Turkey to intervene in the conflict.<\/p>\n

Critics world wide have cautioned that the Arab Spring of 2011 risks a fate similar to Europe’s infamous 1848 \u201cSpring of Nations\u201d revolution, where a generation of wide-eyed revolutionaries were swept aside by Europe’s powers-that-be. Lest Syria’s revolutionaries meet a similar fate at the hands of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s country-wide crackdown on dissent, members on Friday spoke of the need to foster a decisive international response to the crisis.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is not an issue that we should think of in the context of \u201cthe Socialist family,\u201d but as members of the international community,\u201d said Papandreou.<\/p>\n

He added that European and Middle Eastern leaders need to be more decisive in bringing Damascus allies Russia and China on board with a plan that would \u201censure the safe and prompt delivery of humanitarian aid to Syria.\u201d<\/p>\n

The meeting also saw envoys express doubts over the fragmented state of the opposition Syrian National Council (SNC).<\/p>\n

Specially invited members of the SNC meanwhile argued that the opposition was working to unite and that the international community’s focus should be on the \u201cpressing and basic human needs\u201d of the Syrian people.<\/p>\nError, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 9)<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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