27 May 2011

Opposition exiles to meet in Turkey

10:22 am on 27 May 2011

Exiled Syrian opposition activists will meet in Turkey next week to support the uprising in their homeland and help coordinate the campaign to defeat the regime of President Bashar al-Assad.

Representatives of protesters in Syria will also attend the conference. Syria is a one-party state and all opposition is banned.

The conference starts on 1 June in Antalya.

A member of the conference secretariat says delegates will be selected to help raise international pressure on Syria, but forming a transitional council like the one set up by rebels in Libya would be premature.