"Syria will not stay with its arms crossed. If Turkey throws us a flower, we will send them one back!"

Turkey, known for killing about 100 Kurds a day, called the death of a Syrian Kurd (reports indicate that he may have been killed by Turkish Intelligence)"loathsome". Muallem responded:

"... "There are groups carrying out acts of violence in Syria and who have killed a great number of martyrs. The West speaks of a peaceful revolution and does not admit these groups exist but arms them anyhow," Muallem said.
He also issued a thinly veiled warning to Turkey, which has condemned Friday's assassination of Kurdish politician and SNC member Meshaal Tamo as a "loathsome" act.
"Syria will not stay with its arms crossed. If Turkey throws us a flower, we will send them one back," he said.
Assad told a visiting delegation from Latin America that Damascus was focusing both on reform and neutralising the "armed groups" it blames for the unrest sweeping the country since mid-March.