Syrian President Assad confident terrorists obtain chemical weapons from Turkey

He further maintained that financial, armament and logistic support for terrorists in Syria, including recruitment, is provided through Turkey
Friday, 21 April 2017 23:26

Damascus is 100 percent certain that terrorists get chemical weapons and other financial and military support directly from Turkey, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad told Sputnik in an interview.

"Directly from Turkey, and there was evidence regarding this, some of [it has] been shown on the internet a few years ago. You had many parties and parliament members in Turkey who questioned the government regarding those allegations. So, it's not something hidden," Assad said.

He further maintained that financial, armament and logistic support for terrorists in Syria, including recruitment, is provided through Turkey.

"They don't have any other way to come from the north. So, it's a hundred percent Turkey," Assad said.

Assad also said reports of a chemical attack by his forces on a town in the Idlib province were fabricated to excuse the US missile strike on a Syrian airbase

The Syrian leader spoke to Sputnik two weeks after opposition forces accused his government of killing at least 80 people in a sarin nerve gas attack in Khan Sheikhoun in Idlib. Damascus flatly denied this, saying it got rid of toxic substances under a 2013 deal with a UN-backed agency.

The United States and other Western powers insisted Assad was to blame. Three days later, the Pentagon retaliated by striking the Sha’irat base they said Syrian planes took off from on April 4 to drop sarin bombs on Khan Sheikhoun, with 59 cruise missiles launched from US warships in the Mediterranean.