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TURKEY EVACUATING DIPLOMATIC STAFF FROM SYRIA
PanARMENIAN.Net
November 14, 2011 - 10:06 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - A crowd of around a thousand attacked the Turkish
embassy in Damascus on Saturday, November 12 evening, throwing stones
and bottles before Syrian police intervened to break up the protest,
Today~Rs Zaman reported citing state-run Anatolian news agency.
Attacks were also staged against Turkey's consulate in Aleppo and
its honorary consulate in Latakia, the agency quoted Turkish embassy
officials in Damascus as saying.
The attacks took place hours after the Arab League suspended Syria
for failing to carry out a promise to halt its armed crackdown on
eight-month-old pro-democracy demonstrations and open a dialogue with
its opponents.
On Saturday evening, residents in Syria said crowds armed with sticks
and knives attacked the Saudi Arabian embassy in Damascus and the
French and Turkish consulates in Latakia after the Arab League
suspended Syria.
They said hundreds of men shouting slogans in support of President
Bashar al-Assad beat a guard and broke into the Saudi embassy in Abu
Rummaneh, three blocks away from Assad's offices in one of the most
heavily policed areas of the capital.
Outside the Turkish embassy, protesters chanted anti-Turkey slogans,
tried to climb the walls and force the gates open. Syrian police
intervened using teargas to break up the protest as the demonstrators
threw stones and bottles, Anatolian said.
In Aleppo, demonstrators entered the consulate garden and tried to
lower the Turkish flag but were prevented from doing so by consulate
officials.
A group of some 5,000 gathered outside the Turkish honorary consulate
in Latakia, 330 km (210 miles) north of Damascus on the Mediterranean
coast, and broke windows. The officials said a Turkish flag was burned
at this protest, Anatolian said.
No officials at the Turkish diplomatic missions were injured in the
protests, it added.
According to Cihan news agency, Turkey is evacuating most of its
diplomatic personnel from its embassy in Damascus and consulate in
Aleppo due to security reasons. Sources said the Foreign Ministry
does not currently plan to recall the ambassador to Ankara.
PanARMENIAN.Net
November 14, 2011 - 10:06 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - A crowd of around a thousand attacked the Turkish
embassy in Damascus on Saturday, November 12 evening, throwing stones
and bottles before Syrian police intervened to break up the protest,
Today~Rs Zaman reported citing state-run Anatolian news agency.
Attacks were also staged against Turkey's consulate in Aleppo and
its honorary consulate in Latakia, the agency quoted Turkish embassy
officials in Damascus as saying.
The attacks took place hours after the Arab League suspended Syria
for failing to carry out a promise to halt its armed crackdown on
eight-month-old pro-democracy demonstrations and open a dialogue with
its opponents.
On Saturday evening, residents in Syria said crowds armed with sticks
and knives attacked the Saudi Arabian embassy in Damascus and the
French and Turkish consulates in Latakia after the Arab League
suspended Syria.
They said hundreds of men shouting slogans in support of President
Bashar al-Assad beat a guard and broke into the Saudi embassy in Abu
Rummaneh, three blocks away from Assad's offices in one of the most
heavily policed areas of the capital.
Outside the Turkish embassy, protesters chanted anti-Turkey slogans,
tried to climb the walls and force the gates open. Syrian police
intervened using teargas to break up the protest as the demonstrators
threw stones and bottles, Anatolian said.
In Aleppo, demonstrators entered the consulate garden and tried to
lower the Turkish flag but were prevented from doing so by consulate
officials.
A group of some 5,000 gathered outside the Turkish honorary consulate
in Latakia, 330 km (210 miles) north of Damascus on the Mediterranean
coast, and broke windows. The officials said a Turkish flag was burned
at this protest, Anatolian said.
No officials at the Turkish diplomatic missions were injured in the
protests, it added.
According to Cihan news agency, Turkey is evacuating most of its
diplomatic personnel from its embassy in Damascus and consulate in
Aleppo due to security reasons. Sources said the Foreign Ministry
does not currently plan to recall the ambassador to Ankara.