Morocco calls Syria and Turkey to self-restraint

Morocco, being "keen on safeguarding the interests of the two countries and preserving the unity of Muslim ranks, fraternally calls on the two countries to show self-restraint and settle their difference through peaceful means in accordance with the rules of the international law and the principles of neighborliness," the Moroccan Foreign Department said in a statement.

Tension has been escalating between the two countries, and recently Turkish army chief Gen. Hussein Kivrikoglu declared that the two countries had reached "a state of undeclared war,." Troops from both sides converged on the Syrian-Turkish border -- more than 10,000 in Turkey, a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).