13.06.2011 - 06:31 [ BBC ]

Syria: Middle East media ponder foreign intervention

(10.06) Some commentators question the purpose of attempts by France and Britain to pass a UN Security Council resolution condemning the violence, while others ponder the implications of events in Syria for their own countries.

One Turkish commentator hopes his country will not get sucked into a messy intervention, while another asks why the West is not applying the same principles to Syria as it did to Libya.