The Safe Zone concept recognizes that the vast majority of Syrians want to remain in Syria or return to Syria if it is free of the tyranny of Assad and the terror of ISIL.
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The Turkish Prime Minister hailed Pak-Turkey ties as “heart-to-heart” relations, between two brotherly countries.
“The Turkish gendarmerie officer who found Aylan told, rather than an officer on duty, he felt like the little boy’s father, holding helplessly his beloved one”, he said.
“This is a threat that has potential to spread to the whole region and beyond”, Davutoglu said Wednesday, speaking of fighting near Turkey’s border.
Davutoglu’s remarks came during a summit on terrorism and violent extremism on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly meetings in New York.
Davutoglu also admitted, in effect, why Turkey had chose to take part in US-led airstrikes against the Islamic State (IS), using words that indicate that Ankara’s thinking had more to do with preventing further advances by the Syrian Kurds than with fighting IS.
“Such zones, if implemented appropriately, would keep Syrians inside Syria, help a volunteered return of refugees and encourage people to believe again in a stable future for their country”, he said.
The manifest dreadfulness of the Syrian refugee crisis requires the global Community to look at options in Syria which do not include the drain of its brightest and best to advanced countries around the world, and hence condemning Syria to terminal and irreversible decline.
Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has described the Pakistan-Turkey relations as a “heart to heart relationship” and said the ties between the two would continue to strengthen in the years ahead.
He said Turkey has recorded almost 20,000 names from more than 100 countries in its “no entry list” since 2011.
The conflicts in Syria, Libya, Iraq and Afghanistan have killed hundreds of thousands of victims and displaced millions more. Turkey is home to the world’s largest refugee population with more than 2 million.
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“Now, all countries, including Russian Federation, should work together for a peaceful solution”, said Davutoglu.
