barbara slaven from the atlantic council. i would be interested in your government's evaluation of the current strength of the opposition forces within syria. we have seen some unprecedented attacks just yesterday and today on installations near damascus. i believe a republican guard facility and also a television station. do you think that this conflict is going to reach a tipping point and what more is turkey prepared to do to help the opposition? thank you. >> i think first, we should all know that there is no quick solution. no quick solution to all those problems. this is a big, big challenge. there are no magical formulas, unfortunately. so we have to keep this in mind and then work together, all together, for the opposition in order to have a legitimate opposition, we need that opposition to be inclusive. it should represent all segments of society because it is a sectarian country, so i think we should be very careful in working with the opposition to advise them that they should take every necessary step in order to

>> barbara slaven from the atlanta council. pleasure to see you again. i wanted you to talk just a little bit about the relationship that has developed with the russians in the arms control process, and the russians have putin now again as president. how do you see cooperation over iran developing? do you see that this arms control process might bleed into other issues with the russians, or are you a little concerned that putin may play the nationalism card a little harder than medvedev did? thanks. >> as far as russian policy is concerned, i see a great deal of consistency, quite frankly. if you're interested in the official russian articulation of their policy, it's very useful to look at, first of all, the remarks that putin published -- they were published under his name in some of the top newspapers, right before the election. also, he put out an election platform. and since that time, he has -- his administration has published a foreign policy, their first foreign policy statement of policy, after he entered into the presidency. and there's an emph