Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan called Syrian President Bashar Assad to Step down.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan called Syrian President Bashar Assad to Step down.

"Quit power before more blood is shed ...  for the peace of your people, your region and your country," Erdogan said Tuesday in parliament.

Bashar al-Assad is saying he will fight to the death. Fighting your own people ... is not heroism but cowardliness," Erdogan said, referring to a recent interview with Assad published by the Sunday Times in London.

"If you want to see someone who fought and died, take at look at Nazi Germany, take a look at Hitler, take a look at Mussolini and Romania's Ceausescu," he said.

“If the Syrian leader had failed to learn lessons from history”, Erdogan invited him to “consider the more recent fate of Libya's late strongman Muammar Gaddafi”.