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AMMAN (Reuters) – Syrian forces thrust into the rebellious city of Homs on Wednesday, killing as many as 100 civilians by the accounts of opposition activists, and Turkey appeared to be preparing a new diplomatic push against President Bashar al-Assad.
Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan, who is readying an initiative uniting Western, Arab and other states which have called for Ankara’s former ally Assad to step down, was due to speak to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev later on Wednesday.
The Turkish premier, who described the Russian and Chinese veto of the U.N. resolution at the weekend as a “fiasco,” faces a hard sell with Moscow. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has condemned Western “interference” of the kind seen last year in Libya as a “cult of violence.”
Putin, who first won the presidency after his military assault on the rebel Russian city of Grozny, is expected to return to the Kremlin via an election next month in which the Russian leader accuses the West of
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