USA puts more pressure on Syria’s Assad

International pressure on Syria increased after President Bashar al-Assad called for a national dialogue on political change and blamed anti-government protests on a foreign conspiracy.

U.S. President Barack Obama and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan “underlined the necessity to speed up the reform process in Syria in order to meet the demands of the Syrian people,” according to a statement on the website of Erdogan’s office today after the leaders spoke by telephone, according to BusinessWeek.

The government, which long equated almost any dissent with sedition, has

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