Turkey’s Erdogan encourages Islamist rebels to continue advances as Assad regime scrambles to survive
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Amid a fast moving seizure of Syrian cities by a U.S.-classified Islamist terrorist group, the power politics of the Mideast is rapidly changing quickly.
He added that the capital city of Damascus, where Syrian dictator Bashar Assad resides, is the objective. "The target is Damascus." Benjamin Weinthal reports on Israel, Iran, Syria, Turkey and Europe. You can follow Benjamin on Twitter @BenWeinthal, and email him at benjamin.weinthal@fox.com
Erdogan continued, "However, while this resistance there with terrorist organizations is continuing, we had made a call to Assad," referring to his approach to Assad earlier this year to meet and normalize ties after more than a decade of animosity.
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