Turkey and USA discuss Syrian crisis: Armenian Community in Syria may be endangered

Turkey continues playing role in Syrian crisis and participates in world discussions which are announced to seek solution for the situation in Syria. As Iranian Press TV informs Turkish and US officials have held their first "operational planning" meeting aimed at the self-avowed purpose of spelling an end to the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

Delegations of intelligence agents, military officials, and diplomats, led by Turkish Foreign Ministry Deputy Under-Secretary, Halit Cevik and US Ambassador Elisabeth Jones held an eight-hour-long closed-door meeting in Ankara on Thursday. Iranian source writes about this referring to AFP.

US State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said that the talks had examined transition to a ‘post-Assad’ Syria along with ways to support anti-Damascus insurgents.

Remind that earlier, on August 11, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Turkey's Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu announced in Istanbul their plans for such mechanism to hasten termination of al-Assad's government.

Unrests in Syria have started since mid-March 2011 and many people, including Army and security personnel, have been killed in the violence.

At the same time there is a disturbing news for Armenians. As Armenian tert.am informs referring to the Sham Times that Syrian Supreme Council of the Revolution has spread a message. The latter officially warns Armenian Community in Syria.
According to the source Syrian opposition frightens Armenian Community with ''ruins and tragedy''. The source underlines that the warnings are real as Turkey gave a green light to the Syrian opposition to attack Armenians. As it is known Turkey supports Syrian opposition.

The opposition accuses Armenian Community in ''assisting Assad's regime'' and ''in participation in some murders''.