Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday that the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was reaching an “inevitable end.”
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday that the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was reaching an “inevitable end.”
"Assad's regime is approaching its inevitable end," Erdogan said in comments translated into Russian at a conference in the Ukrainian Black Sea resort of Yalta.
"We must say 'no' to this human drama and not allow flames to engulf the whole region, so that the transition process could move more quickly ahead," the Turkish premier said to President Assad.
Meanwhile, Erdogan slammed the anti-Islam film which was produced by extremist Jews and Copts in the United States, considering it as provocation.
"This is a strong provocation against our way of life," Erdogan said during the conference.
"Insulting the prophet cannot be justified as freedom of expression. Religion and the prophet are sacred values and are untouchable."
But he added: "It cannot be a reason for innocent people to be attacked or harmed.”
"This is justified by nothing and above all not by Islam. No-one can, in the name of Islam, carry out actions of the kind that happened in Libya with the attack on the US mission" in Benghazi, he said.
The film mocks the religion of Islam as it denigrates Prophet Mohammad (pbuh), sparking protest across some Islamic countries.
In Libya the US ambassador along with other three consulate officials were killed in the city of Benghazi.
Protests in Yemen also took place in which four people were killed as demonstrator tried to storm the US embassy there.
In the same context there were clashes between Egyptian protesters and police outside the US embassy in Cairo.