AL-Zoubi: Turkish Gov’t Blamed for Rihaniya Bombings

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Information Minister, Omran al-Zoubi, stressed that the bombings which rocked Rihaniya city in Turkey are a terrorist act that is condemned by all moral, human and legal standards.

"Any accusation against Syria in any statement, where explicit or implicit, by any Turkish official is completely rejected," said al-Zoubi.
He further stated that the Turkish government led by Recep Tayyip Erdogan is to blame for the bombings in Rihaniya having turned the border areas with Syria into international terrorist concentrations.

He added that the Turkish government has been facilitating the delivery of weapons, explosive devices, car bombs, money and killers into Syria.
"We have problems with Turkey since hundreds of years, yet Syria...has never acted this way or done such an act. It's not because we can't, but because the way we were raised and our morals, conduct and values don't allow us to do such a thing," the Syrian minister added.

"Why should the bombings in Turkey take place days before Erdogan's meeting Obama?...Is it that [Erdogan] wants to show off and say he has enough power to intervene in Syria?... Does Erdogan want to foil the Russian-US efforts to hold an international conference?" al-Zoubi asked.
Al-Zoubi commented on the statements made by the Turkish Foreign Minister in which he said "Turkey can defend itself" by saying "Against whom does it have to defend itself? Turkey, the state and the people, want to defend themselves, they have to ask Erdogan and his government to step down because they are to blame for what happened."

Answering a question on how Syria's future would be, he said reaching "the renewed Syria" is a national political, economic, social, human and cultural project to which all Syrians should contribute regardless of any differences among them.
Al-Zoubi added that this project cannot be launched without a comprehensive national dialogue that does not exclude anyone.

Source: SANA, Edited by moqawama.org