President Obama Rules Out Possibility Of Unilateral American Military Intervention In Syria

A possible U.S. military intervention in Syria has been ruled out by President Obama in a White House media briefing on Thursday. The briefing was also attended by the Turkish Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who is presently visiting the U.S.

There was wide spread media assumption that if proof of use of chemical weapons by the Assad government in the two-year-old Syrian civil war was found then the U.S. military would intervene.

A the White House press meet, President Obama said that the Syrian civil war was an international concern and not a U.S. centric-problem.
"This is ... an international problem," said Obama during the media briefing. "It's not going to be something that the United States does by itself. And I don't think anybody in the region would think that U.S. unilateral actions ... would bring about a better outcome,", reported Los Angeles Times.

The Turkish Prime Minister is visiting the U.S. to discuss the Syrian matter and he wants President Obama to put pressure on the Assad government to step down.

The Syrian crisis that has resulted in the death of approximately 80,000 people so far, according to the UN figures, is also responsible for increasing Syrian refugee population in Turkey. An estimated 400,000, Syrians have taken refuge in Turkey, state media reports.

Turkey wants the international community to provide a solution for the growing refugee problem on its soil and is demanding that a refugee settlement be created in northern Syria, a no-fly-zone.

Responding to Turkey's demand for the creation of a no-fly-zone in northern Syria to help refugees, the President said that America does not want to indulge in any kind of military intervention in Syria and is not willing to create a no-fly-zone.

So far, the U.S. has taken the diplomatic route to solve the Syrian issue, apart from providing humanitarian aid and non-lethal support to the Syrian rebels who are fighting to topple the Assad regime.

"There's no magic formula for dealing with an extraordinarily violent and difficult situation like Syria's," said President Obama. He further explained that if there would have been an easy solution to it, the problem would have been solved by now.

The situation in Syria is worsening every moment and Turkey wants the U.S. to intervene along with international support to end the Syrian civil war rule as soon as possible. But the U.S. is denying any kind of military action for the time being.