Turkey presses Syria to end crackdown

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

BEIRUT -- President Bashar Assad discussed "concrete steps" to end the violent crackdown on protesters during six hours of talks Tuesday with Turkey's foreign minister, even as the Syrian military unleashed a fresh assault on dissent that activists said killed more than 20 people.

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