No Longer 'realistic' To Exclude Assad From Syria Deal: Turkey

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No longer 'realistic' to exclude Assad from Syria deal: Turkey

DAVOS, Switzerland, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 20th Jan, 2017 ) : Turkey said on Friday it was no longer "realistic" to insist on a solution to the Syria conflict without President Bashar al-Assad.

"We have to be pragmatic, realistic. The facts on the ground have changed dramatically," Deputy Prime Minister Mehmet Simsek told a panel on Syria at the World Economic Forum in Davos. "Turkey can no longer insist on a settlement without Assad. It is not realistic."