Turkey said it wouldn’t “wait and see” if “other countries’s internal affairs affect” its security, in reference to Syria.

Turkey said it wouldn’t “wait and see” if “other countries's internal affairs affect” its security, in reference to Syria.

"Today we have not interfered in anybody's internal affairs”, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu told reporters.
"But if internal affairs in other countries affect us ... and if they constitute a security risk, then we have no luxury of saying 'let's wait and see,'" he added.

Davutoglu also commented on President Bashar Assad latest remarks, urging him to punish the "murderers" of anti-regime protesters and accept observers proposed by the Arab League.
"If he (Assad) is now sincere, he will immediately punish the murderers and accept Arab League observers. He still has such an opportunity”.

Davutoglu said Assad's remarks were a kind of "confession".
"He now accepts that security forces might have made a mistake," said Davutoglu. "I wish he had said this in April."

In an interview with ABC News this week Assad said that security forces belonged to "the government" and not him personally.

We don't kill our people," Assad said. "No government in the world kills its people, unless it's led by a crazy person."
"I don't own them. I'm president. I don't own the country. So they are not my forces," Assad said, referring to security forces.