Syria is willing to carry out a joint investigation with Turkey into deadly attacks in the border town of Reyhanli that Ankara has accused Damascus of masterminding, a Syrian minister said on Tuesday.
“If the government of [Prime Minister Recep Tayyip] Erdogan calls for a joint, transparent investigation by the two countries, we have no objection, in order to find the truth,” Information Minister Omran al-Zohbi said.
“The truth must be announced to the Syrian and Turkish people,” he was quoted as saying by state media.
The twin car bombings that rocked the town of Reyhanli on Saturday killed 51 people and wounded dozens more.
Erdogan told parliament on Tuesday that 13 people have been held by police in connection with the attacks, which are the deadliest to hit Turkey since the beginning of the uprising in neighbouring Syria in March 2011.
Turkey has blamed a radical Marxist group affiliated with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime for the attack. Damascus has denied the allegation.