There is always a chance for political solution, Turkish ambassador said
The Turkish ambassador in Amman, Muhammad Suha Amre, said that Turkey is ready to deal "militarily" with the current situation resulting from Syrian - Turkish disputes.
Yet, he said, there is always a chance "now and always for a peaceful solution."
In a press statement published by the Jordanian daily al-Rai, he said that Turkey's decision to fight terrorism, especially the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK), is persistent.
The Turkish ambassador said his country delivered, one month earlier, the Syrian deputy foreign minister a message including the Turkish demand. " But, they in Damascus, did not answer our message either by 'yes' or 'no.'" He added, "We delivered two days earlier a message via the Syrian ambassador to Ankara, in which we set our conditions."
Amre stated that the UN charter does not permit any country belonging to the UN to allow the use of its territories by other sides to launch terrorist actions against another state.
He, in this respect, indicated Turkey's material and human casualties resulting from armed operations carried out by the Kurdish Workers Party against civilians. These losses are estimated at US $86 billion and 30,000 deaths.
Turkish President Suleiman Demirel on Wednesday asserted that his country is very serious about settling its current dispute with Syria.
In a statement to reporters, Demirel said he asserted to Egypt's President Mubarak that Turkey is worried over what he claimed is Damascus' support for Kurdish rebels.
Mubarak stopped in Syria after his talks in Turkey to brief the Syrian leadership on those talks. Sawt al-Arab radio said on Wednesday that official Syrian sources described the talks held between Presidents Hafez al-Assad and Hosni Mubarak on Tuesday in Damascus as "positive."
The sources added that a high-ranking Syrian delegation will arrive in Cairo within the next two days to complete discussions on ideas debated during the shuttle tour President Mubarak held between Damascus and Ankara.
Meanwhile, Egyptian Foreign Minister Amr Moussa asserted that efforts exerted by Egypt to contain the crisis between Turkey and Syria and to return relations to normal will continue.
In a statement Moussa made on Wednesday in Cairo, he said: "There is an Arab unanimity on the importance of solving this crisis peacefully." He warned against the dangerous consequences that would result from any military action against Syria.
He added that President Mubarak, as the head of the Arab summit, has spoken on behalf of all Arab countries with Turkish President Suleiman Demirel on the necessity of avoiding any actions that could increase tensions and cause the deterioration of the situation by solving all problems through discussion and diplomatic means away from a military solution.
The US ambassador to Lebanon, David Satterfield, asserted on Wednesday in Beirut following his meeting with the Lebanese Mufti Sheikh Muhammad Rashid Qabbani and the chairman of the higher Shiite Islamic Council Sheikh Muhammad Mahdi Shamseddine that the U.S. support the initiative of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to defuse the tensions resulting from the Turkish threats on Syria, .
Meanwhile, Syrian President Hafez al-Assad on Wednesday received a phone call from Iranian President Muhammad Khatami. The Syrian President thanked President Khatami for the support of Iran. He expressed satisfaction over the "bortherly" relations between Syria and Iran.