Turkey closed its embassy in Syria amid renewed shelling in Homs

Turkey closed its embassy in Syria amid renewed shelling in Homs
Turkey closed its embassy in Syria amid renewed shelling in Homs
Turkey closed its embassy in Syria amid renewed shelling in Homs
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Turkey closed its embassy in Syria on Monday, adding to the isolation of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who reiterated his forces bombed the city of Homs mortar in an attempt to quell the opposition.

The video footage showed fire and black smoke billowing from at least two in Homs, Syria's third largest city, which has become the center of the uprising has been going on year. He accused the army of the population of indiscriminate bombardment.

Walid al-Faris, an activist based in Homs "Every day the bombing continues. System erases the city."

Followed the example of Turkey and many Arab and Western countries said it had suspended all work at its embassy in Damascus with the deteriorating security situation.

And Turkey, which was condemned ally of Assad's exercise of his days to eliminate the opposition and threw its weight behind his opponents and announced on Sunday it would cooperate with Washington to provide "non-lethal aid" to the Syrian opposition.

It is scheduled to go Kofi Annan Envoy joint UN and the Arab League to China later on Monday as part of efforts to convince all the major powers to pressure on Assad to accept the peace plan put forward, consisting of six points.

Annan met with Russian leaders on Sunday and received assurances from them that Moscow fully supports the initiative. The initiative calls for Annan's Assad to accept a ceasefire and allow humanitarian aid, but does not demand he step down, as called for Western powers.

The United Nations says that eight thousand people, at least many of them women and children, were killed during the uprising and accused human rights groups of brutal government repeated.

While Syria says that "an armed terrorist groups" killed three thousand of the security forces