Robert Fisk doubted talks about a soon fall of the Syrian regime.

Robert Fisk doubted talks about a soon fall of the Syrian regime.

In an report published on The Independent, Fisk stated that “Listening in the old capital of the Ottoman Empire to the mice-turned-to-lions of the Gulf, you could almost believe these were the Last Days of Assad. Personally, I doubt it. When The Wall Street Journal announces his forthcoming demise I reckon he's safe for a good while yet. The Syrian National Council in Istanbul is itself a pretty argumentative mouse, recognised only by the pipsqueak power of the new Libya.

Fisk further ridiculed the Turkish sanctions against the Syrian regime saying: “There is much talk in Istanbul of cutting all oil links with Syria, of cutting back on electricity supplies to Syria – much good will that do, of course, because it is Syria's poor who will suffer. The Syrian government has generators, does it not?”