Turkey’s Davutoglu sees no transition period for Syria’s Assad

“What we need to do is to have solidarity with all the countries including Russian Federation to make a transition in Syria a peaceful transition” Davutoglu told a press conference on the margins of the UN General Assembly in New York.

As America only shelters approximately 1,500 refugees now, this topic has been pressed upon President Obama and addressed in presidential campaigns as well.

“My country has been the victim of terrorism since early 1970s and knows only too well that terrorism is an ugly instrument of illegitimate politics”, he said.

Davutoglu said such centres were “unacceptable” and “inhumane” and repeated Turkey’s call for the formation of a safe zone inside Syria stretching from Azaz to Jarablus in the north. “There is no difference between Daesh and PKK and other terrorist organizations”.

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu met with 14 year-old Ahmed Mohamed, the Muslim boy who was arrested after a teacher mistook his homemade clock for a bomb in the U.S.

Turkey then could build three cities each hosting one hundred thousand people in the safe zone, Davutoglu said, according to AFP.

The leaders discussed the ongoing migrant and refugee crisis in Europe and the Syrian civil war, sources said.

“On the other hand, let us not deceive ourselves”.

Assad and Daesh are “two evils supporting each other” he said. “We can not ignore the impact of unresolved conflicts, mismanaged crises, mass displacements and gaps of human security, intolerance, discrimination, racism, xenophobia and Islamophobia as factors that prepare the grounds for violent extremism”.

Turkey’s Hurriyet Daily News reported on September 28 that Davutoglu said Turkey would accept whatever political solution Syrians choose, but it could not include Assad.

But he also echoed Ankara’s long-standing view, saying: “Nobody can foresee Syria’s future with al-Assad”.

Numerous Syrian refugees pouring into Europe have been living in Turkey for months, even years.