FM Çavuşoğlu says Turkey is not making choice between Russia, US
"We are not making a choice between Russia and America. We are also not making a choice between the [Bashar al-Assad] regime and America, France and Britain," Turkey's Foreign Minister Çavuşoğlu said in his speech during the 5th ordinary congress of the AK Party in Antalya's Alanya district.
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- Anadolu Agency
- Published Date: 12:00 | 15 April 2018
- Modified Date: 10:42 | 15 April 2018
Turkey is not taking sides between Russia and the U.S., Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said on Saturday.
"We are not making a choice between Russia and America. We are also not making a choice between the [Bashar al-Assad] regime and America, France and Britain," Çavuşoğlu told a crowd during the 5th ordinary congress of the ruling Justice and Development (AK) Party in Antalya's Alanya district.
"Our goal is to bring a political solution to Syria, bring back peace and guarantee Syria's stability, border and territorial unity; we are sincere on this issue," he said.
Earlier on Saturday, Çavuşoğlu said the U.S.-led airstrikes was against the Assad regime that uses chemical weapons.
"We have to save Syria from this regime," Çavuşoğlu said.
The U.S., U.K., and France jointly launched airstrikes on the Assad regime's alleged chemical weapons facilities in Syria earlier on Saturday.
The strikes came after the Assad regime was accused of carrying out a chemical attack in Syria's Douma, which killed 78 civilians and injured hundreds of others.
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