ANKARA
The Deputy Chairman of Turkey's ruling Justice and Development (AK) Party, Huseyin Celik, compared Syrian President Bashar al- Assad to Saddam Hussein, the former Iraqi head, following the chemical weapon attack staged by the Assad regime on Wednesday which claimed at least 1,300 lives near Damascus.
Thousands of people were killed and many others injured in a sarin gas attack staged by Saddam Hussein in 1998 in Halabja, a Kurdish populated region in northern Iraq.
Celik harshly criticized those who supported Wednesday's attack both financially and politically. "The world ignores violence in Syria as there is no oil in the country," said Celik.
Referring to the UN Security Council's meeting following the attack in Syria, Celik said the Security Council could not reach a solution, adding that "Today's UN is an unfair establishment."
