In addition, rebel gunfire killed five people in Azamiyeh, a government-controlled area in Aleppo, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. A UN-led investigation that same month found the government had, in fact, used chlorine on at least two occasions.
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Erdogan also repeated calls for a safe-zone to be established between the Syrian towns of Azaz and Jarablus in Aleppo province, to protect civilians.
Syrian government forces have been accused of dropping barrel bombs containing chlorine from helicopters on a suburb of Aleppo, injuring 80 people.
Assad’s regime regularly denies using chemical weapons – which are forbidden under global – though there have been numerous accounts of their use since fighting began in Syria’s civil war.
The video also showed a crowded hospital where people of different ages seemed to have breathing difficulties; some appeared with oxygen masks while others were taking nebulizer sessions as they were being injected with medications.
Syria’s government has been accused of using chlorine gas in an attack on the rebel-held city of Aleppo.
Survivors of the chemical attack told Middle East Eye that many people were suffocating and had to put gas masks on to breathe.
According to media reports, helicopters dropped barrel bombs loaded with the toxic gas on civilians.
The city has always been divided between government-held areas in the west and opposition-controlled neighborhoods in the east.
An UN report last month confirmed that warring parties in Syria used poisonous gases as weapons, despite the 2013 agreement to remove and destroy the chemical weapon stockpile.
The UN Commission of Inquiry on Syria said it was investigating allegations that chemical weapons had been used in Aleppo in April.
According to a report by United Nations experts presented to the Security Council, Assad’s government and the Islamic State militant group have been using chemical weapons in Syria since 2013.
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After re-imposing a siege on rebel-held eastern Aleppo with an advance in the city’s southwest on Sunday, the army and its allies now aim to block the insurgents from bringing in reinforcements, a Syrian military source said.
