Syrian opposition request international protection and unite to topple Assad

Demanded the major opposition groups in Syria on Sunday the international community to take action to protect the Syrian people in the face of a violent campaign to suppress pro-democracy protests.
Syrian opposition has succeeded in uniting their ranks for the first time since the outbreak of protests in Syria in March / March, and announced the formation of a National Council with the aim of working to overthrow the regime of President Bashar al-Assad.
The opposition, which includes most of the political spectrum, including the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood and liberals of the world to recognize the new council.
Declined to a statement issued in Istanbul for the Syrian National Council newly formed any external interference affects the national sovereignty of Syria; but said that the international community has an obligation to protect human Syrian people ..
The statement also said: "The council calls the national organizations and international bodies concerned to shoulder their responsibilities towards the Syrian people and work to protect it from him and declared war to stop the crimes and serious violations of human rights committed by the illegal regime based ..".
The Declaration and the support of the National Council of the tangible manifestation of the unity of the Syrian opposition have begun to resist the most violent control of the non-violent protests for the most part, which began six months ago against President Bashar al-Assad.
It should be noted that it has been so far overcome the dissidents, mostly militants in the region of Homs in central Syria, located in Idleb northwest Syria near Turkey ..
But in confirmation of the transformation of the most violent Syrian authorities said that the son of Mufti of Syria, appointed by the lion was killed Sunday, was the first attack against a Sunni cleric, backed by the state and it represents one of the support bases of the elite ruling Alawite faction of al-Assad for decades.
In Istanbul, the National Council said that the uprising must remain peaceful, but many military attacks against towns and villages, torture, mass arrests push Syria to "the brink of civil war and calls for outside intervention

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Massive protest demonstration against the missile shield in Turkey

Organized opposition political parties in the village "Korh Jake" in the province of "Malattiya" protest against the decision of the Government of the Justice and Development to allow the setting up early warning systems for the missile shield on their territory.

According to one of the channels of Turkey on Monday that he participated in the demonstration Republican People's Party the largest opposition forces in the country, peace and democracy of the pro-Kurdish and Communist Workers Party and a number of civic organizations and professional with approximately five thousand people under the slogans against government policy, describing the decision of the Turkish government as a "project to protect Israel ".

He said the demonstrators that the Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan "challenge Israel at every opportunity by the other hand, is the co-chair of the Greater Middle East."

The demonstration took place under tight security measures for not giving the opportunity to create chaos and unrest.

It is noteworthy that Turkey signed with the United States last month, a memorandum of understanding under which deployment of radar systems for missile defense system of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

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Panetta: We will visit Egypt to meet Field Marshal and the honor to confirm the security relations

The Minister of Defense Leon Panetta that he will visit Egypt this week for talks with Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, head of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces and Prime Minister Dr. Essam Sharaf to emphasize the security relationship.
This came in statements to Panetta on board the plane carrying him to tour the region and which also meet with leaders in Israel and Palestine, in addition to visiting NATO headquarters in Brussels this week to emphasize also on the security of the U.S. Department of Defense.
Panetta said he would discuss with officials in Egypt Topics include the efforts of the Council of the armed forces to oversee the transition of the credibility and transparency, and strong commitment to long-term defense relationship, and commitment to the continued help of the Egyptian armed forces.
He added: "I want to thank the Field Marshal Tantawi for his quick assistance when requested to do so during the month of September to contain the situation when the Israeli embassy was besieged."
The U.S. Secretary of Defense in Egypt that he will discuss the way forward in the electoral process so that it can move Egypt towards the formation of a civilian government represents the will of the people and represent the desires and hopes.
The U.S. defense secretary to Leon Panetta to the United States will provide any assistance whatsoever to Egypt in this regard, saying: "Whatever assistance we can provide to help them in this process, we are certainly willing to do so

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U.S. Secretary of Defense warned Israel of its isolation and demanding peace

Defense minister warned the U.S. to Leon Panetta that Israel has become increasingly isolated in the Middle East and said the U.S. security commitments should enable Israel to take "risks for peace"
Panetta and up to Israel Monday for the first time since he took office as defense minister. He said he will emphasize U.S. security commitments to Israel and try to help them improve frosty relations increasingly with TurkeyAnd Egypt.
He indicated that he will during his visit to Israel, to re-emphasize the security commitments of the United States toward Israel and try to help improve relations between the Jewish state and all of Turkey and Egypt.
Panetta said he will emphasize to the Israeli and Palestinian parties that it is important to begin the negotiations to reach a settlement rather than setting conditions or to seek other means to resolve the dispute between them, in reference to the Palestinian orientation of the United Nations for membership of the international organization.
He added that "it is very clear in this dramatic time in the Middle East, and under a lot of changes, it is not good for Israel to become more isolated, but this is what actually happened."
He pointed out that "it is important to reaffirm once again the strong security relationship with the United States and Israel, to emphasize that we will protect qualitative military edge for Israel."
Panetta and wondered whether it was sufficient to maintain Israel's military superiority and at the same time isolating itself diplomatically at the same time stressing that "true security can only be achieved strong diplomatic efforts, with strong efforts to show military force."
And before the American secretary said, "It is the Israelis as a risk for peace, we will be able to provide the security that they need to ensure there is appropriate opportunity to negotiate" with the Palestinians.
It is scheduled to be held Panetta during his visit to Israel for separate meetings with his Israeli counterpart Ehud Barak and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to discuss defense ties between the U.S. and Israel, as well as major security issues between the two countries also hold Panetta meetings with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas "Abu Mazen, "and Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad

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