{"id":34389,"date":"2011-05-27T10:22:41","date_gmt":"2011-05-27T07:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=34389"},"modified":"2014-01-06T02:06:57","modified_gmt":"2014-01-06T00:06:57","slug":"syria-opposition-to-meet-in-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2011\/05\/27\/syria-opposition-to-meet-in-turkey\/","title":{"rendered":"Syria opposition to meet in Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"

NICOSIA \u2014 Syrian opposition leaders are to hold a conference in Turkey next week in support of two-month-old protests against the rule of President Bashar al-Assad, one of the organisers told AFP on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe Syrian opposition will organise a conference in Antalya from May 31 to June 2 in support of the revolt in Syria and claims of the Syrian people,\u201d Ammar Qurabi, president of the Egypt-based National Organisation of Human Rights, told AFP.<\/p>\n

The conference will be open to all supporters of the opposition, independent personalities and representatives of all faiths, he said, referring to a group of reformers who called for democratic changes in 2005 under a statement known as the Damascus Declaration.<\/p>\n

Since the outbreak of anti-government protests in mid-March, at least 1,062 people have been killed by Syrian security forces, according to Qurabi.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have a list of names of 1,062 people killed, along with information about the places where they died.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said 10,000 people were arrested during the protests against the autocratic regime of Assad, who succeeded his father Hafez in 2000.<\/p>\n

In April, the president lifted the state of emergency in force for decades \u2014 one of the main demands of protesters \u2014 but he also regulated the right to demonstrate.<\/p>\n

His opponents are demanding an end to the domination of the ruling Baath party, free elections and the release of political prisoners.<\/p>\n

via Syria opposition to meet in Turkey – The Egyptian Gazette.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NICOSIA \u2014 Syrian opposition leaders are to hold a conference in Turkey next week in support of two-month-old protests against the rule of President Bashar al-Assad, one of the organisers told AFP on Tuesday. \u201cThe Syrian opposition will organise a conference in Antalya from May 31 to June 2 in support of the revolt in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":34391,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-syria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}