#Syria Prepares for Election, final preparations for a parliamentary election on Monday,

Allen Greenfield

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May 06, 2012 Syria Prepares for Election VOA News Syria is making final preparations for a parliamentary election on Monday, with authorities praising it as a major reform, while opposition activists dismiss it as a farce for coinciding with a violent ...

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Syria is making final preparations for a parliamentary election on Monday, with authorities praising it as a major reform, while opposition activists dismiss it as a farce for coinciding with a violen...

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Brian Gauspohl

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Turkey and Syria

Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed Sunday to keep his country's borders open to refugees fleeing from neighbouring Syria.

"God willing, a new process will begin in Syria ... sooner or later," Erdogan told a meeting of his ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) in Gaziantep near the Syrian border.

"Until the will of the people comes to power in Syria, we will continue to defend the rights of our brothers coming from there, and to host and embrace them," he added.

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Protests in Syria have escalated into what some are calling a burgeoning civil war, and the United Nations says more than 9000 people have been killed since the uprising began in March last year. The ...