Turkish FM calls on Syria to accept Arab League's plan to end violence

ISTANBUL (A.A) - Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu urged the Syrian government to accept immediately a plan proposed by the Arab League to end violence against civilians in Syria. "We expect Syria to accept Arab League's plan at once and give Syrian people their future. Syria is no one's private property and it is in no single group's, party's or ideology's absolute authority. Syria belongs to Syrians who must be allowed to hold their democratic elections," Davutoglu told a joint press appearance with Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser, president of the United Nations General Assembly, after a tete-a-tete meeting on the sidelines of an international conference on mediation in Istanbul. Davutoglu said the Syrian regime planned to oppress any opposition in the country before it held elections, adding that such an approach could not be accepted. "Turkey expects a swift end to bloodshed. A regime that declared war on its own people has no chance of legitimacy or survival," Davutoglu said.                  Davutoglu said a Tunisia meeting of the Group of Friends of the Syrian People had given a message to the Syrian regime that "we stand by the Syrian people in their struggle and continue to oppose massacres against Syria."