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When Assad started gunning people down by the dozens, even Erdogan was repulsed

If he was repulsed he would have closed the embassy in Damascus which he has not.The other NATO countries have closed their embassies. The Syrian embassy in Turkey is still open for business.

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Some embassies in Damascus have been closed because they are no longer safe. Erdogan thinks it’s important to keep a channel open for dialogue, but he’s said that Assad must go and that what he’s done is reprehensible. And Assad doesn’t want to go, meaning that negotiations won’t work. Assad will have to be killed. The rebels should concentrate on that, instead of worrying about fighting Assad’s thugs.