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Source: http://nowlebanon.com/NewsArticleDetails.aspx?ID=378866
U.S. Tells Turkey to Back Off Syria
(Now Lebanon) Tony Badran - Washington, which at one point subcontracted its Syria policy to Ankara, has now called the Turks off the regime of Bashar al-Assad. According to well-informed Turkish and U.S. sources, during his meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Clinton last month, Turkey's Foreign Minister Davutoglu put forward a set of measures, including a buffer zone and/or a humanitarian corridor, as well as organizing and equipping the Free Syrian Army (FSA). The secretary of state responded in no uncertain terms that the Obama administration had no interest in pursuing any of these options. Washington's preferred policy is to go through the Russians in an attempt to reach a "political solution" to the Syrian crisis.