Without the public support, we cannot withstand two years and a half. Look at the other countries, look what happened in Libya, in Tunisia and in Egypt.
Bashar al-AssadWhether [Turkey] is a NATO country or not, it doesn't have the right to invade any other country according to the international law or to any other moral value.
Bashar al-AssadWe're not in the area where the alleged chemical attack happened. I said alleged. We're not sure that anything happened.
Bashar al-AssadWhen you have terrorists, you don't throw at them balloons or you don't use rubber sticks, for example. You have to use armaments.
Bashar al-Assad