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Moscow- Nov 09, 2014, The pugnacious Turkish President made a rare telephone call to his Russian counterpart to discuss the latest regional developments, particularly Syria’s raging conflict.

According to Moscow Times, a renowned Russian English-language daily newspaper, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan who stepped up his customary belligerent rhetoric against the Syrian government of Bashar al-Assad, told his Russian counterpart that Turkey has allegedly reached a threshold where it cannot remain indifferent toward the “human carnage” in the Arab war-torn country, but to Erdoğan’s surprise, Putin was infuriated and vehemently warned Turkish President from further interfering in Syrian internal affairs otherwise Russia is ready to thwart Turkey from triggering a catastrophic war in the region.

The Turkish flabbergasted president then asked Putin whether his fiery remarks meant a direct threat against Turkey and Putin replied:” Mr. President, You may construe whatever interpretations you wish from my words.”

The Russian president also reminded Erdoğan to the bitter fact that it is Turkey’s erroneous and bellicose policies vis-à-vis the Syrian crisis which claimed the lives of tens of thousands of innocent civilians and further urged the Turkish megalomaniac president to desist from supporting Jihadi terrorists whom set up training camps and safe havens inside the Turkish territories.

Dr. İsmet Bayraktar , a distinguished University professor ,specialized in the political and social history of the Ottoman Empire and modern Turkey believes that Erdoğan during his phone call, tried to somehow dissuade Putin from continuing Russia’s considerable military and political support to embattled Syrian president but as it appears Moscow cannot find more loyal and trustworthy alternative to Assad’s regime.

The two Black Sea neighboring countries differ extremely in regard to their approach to the Syrian conflict. Turkey is keen for a regime change in Syria, while Russia remains one of the staunchest supporters of the Bashar al-Assad regime.

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The special UN envoy for Syria Staffan De Mistura on Friday called on Turkey to allow the Syrian Kurdish volunteers back across the border to rescue the city of Kobane attacked by jihadist Islamic state group.

“We call on the Turkish authorities to allow the flow of refugees to enter the city to support its action of self-defense,” said the envoy in a press conference in Geneva, while Turkey banned yet to refugees who crossed the border from Syria to cross back the other way.

He said fears of a “massacre”. “Remember Srebrenica” in the former Yugoslavia, he added. Mr. De Mistura, Pholos satellite support, explained that “10,000 to 13,000 people are at a place in the border area -between Turkey and Syria-and many are still inside the city.” “If it falls, civilians are most likely murdered,” said the diplomat.

“Since Kobane will likely fall if it does not help, let those who want to go to join self-defense, with enough equipment, the equipment can do many things,” said Mr. De Mistura for Turkey.

“It is not through UN resolutions that IE will stop,” he has said. “Our appeal to Turkey is that it takes extra steps to stop the advance of IE, if not all of us, including Turkey, will miss” Has he said.

Jihadists of the Islamic State (AEs) were able to advance in Kobané, became a symbol of resistance to the ultraradical group responsible for atrocities in Syria and Iraq, despite the strikes of the international coalition.

More than three weeks after launching the offensive to take this strategic Kurdish city in northern Syria, besieged south sides, east and west, the jihadists have taken the third since Monday and try to make their way to the northern limit of Kobané, about one km from the Turkish border.

Geneva, 10 October 2014 (AFP) –