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Syria Denies Involvement in Deadly Turkish Bombings

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GETTY 51313 TurkeyBomb?  SQUARESPACE CACHEVERSION=1368433936449BULENT KILIC/AFP/Getty Images(DAMASCUS, Syria) — Syria flatly denied on Sunday that it had anything to do with two car bomb attacks on the Turkish border that left 46 people dead and more than 50 wounded the day before.

At a news conference in Damascus, Information Minister Omran al-Zoubi said his government “did not commit and would never commit such an act because our values would not allow that.”

Al-Zoubi added, “It is not anyone’s right to hurl unfounded accusations” in response to the  Turkish Interior Minister Muammer Guler’s assertion that the bombings in Reyhanli were done by an organization with “close contact to pro-regime groups in Syria.”

As of Sunday, nine people had been arrested in connection with the incident, all of them Turkish citizens.

Ankara has openly criticized Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime while supporting opposition groups dedicated to his overthrow.  Turkey has also turned into a haven for at least 300,000 Syrians trying to escape the violence of the two-year conflict.

Still furious with Syria, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu later called on “the international community to define a joint stance against a regime that uses every brutal method on its own people.”

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