Originally Posted by Recep Tayyip Erdogan[B
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'No place for autocratic regimes'
Meanwhile, Turkey, which has strong diplomatic ties with Syria, warned Damascus that "the only way out is to immediately silence arms and to listen to the people's demands".
"We have been watching the fate of those who didn't chose this path in the past few months in Tunisia, in Egypt - and now in Libya - as a warning and with sadness," Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in his monthly address aired on Turkish TV on Sunday.
"Demands for democracy and freedom are the people's just demands. In today's world, there is no place for one-man rule, for autocratic regimes and closed communities".
Rights groups say more than 2,200 people have been killed since the uprising began in March.
Small price to pay.
Half a million died in America's Civil War ... and a bit more than that in Rwanda's recent bloodletting ...