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Davutoğlu also called for the removal of President Bashar al-Assad, saying “Anyone thinking of a solution to the Syrian crisis must think of a Syria without Assad, a vicious tyrant killing indiscriminately with chemical weapons and barrel bombs”.

In remarks that did not appear in the pre-written statement published by the United Nations before he spoke, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu called Assad a “vicious tyrant” and accused him of “killing his own people indiscriminately”.

The Prime Minister availed the opportunity to take his Turkish counterpart into confidence on Pakistan’s concerns over the security situation in Afghanistan and Pakistan’s relations with India.

“We don’t want to see either Daesh [the Arabic acronym for ISIL], or the Syrian regime on our borders”, Davutoglu said in New York.

We are looking at very young people of Syria that are living in dire need of aid in a country that can no longer offer hospitality. “Until then, the global community must act swiftly to provide them safety in their homeland, a “safe area”, free from aerial bombardment by the regime and ground assault by Daesh and other terrorist organizations”, he added. He said that the cost of Turkey to receive about 2.2 million refugees from Syria and Iraq accounted for almost $ 8 bn. With 100,000 to 200,000 Syrians now inhabiting Istanbul, social problems already abound, since the refugees’ language and ethnicity are entirely different from the non-Semitic Turks.

Like many other heads of state and government addressing the 193-member General Assembly, Davutoglu recalled Aylan Kurdi – the three-year-old Syrian boy who drowned on the shores of Turkey earlier this year – in his speech.

On the refugee front, Turkey’s creation of tent camps and caravan cities along its Syrian border has been impressive both in humanitarian and logistical terms, but its main aim, to block a Syrian influx, has failed.

“It is neither possible nor just to expect from Turkey or the neighboring countries to face the migratory pressures, risks and threats alone”, he said.