Assad: "Turkey provides direct support to terrorists in Syria."

The West has no right to establish democracy in Syria as it is responsible for bloodshed in the region, Syrian President Bashar Assad said in a interview released on Friday by Turkey’s Ulusal TV station.

Mr. Assad described the ongoing crisis in Syria as an international one and, at the same time, as war waged against his country by the international community.

“This is also a struggle to redraw the region’s map and one going on between major powers,” Assad said, adding that by the latter he had in mind a standoff between the West and the BRICS countries which have a different view of what is going on in Syria.

“The establishment of BRICS sent a signal to the whole world that the US can no longer remain the sole pole of global power and that others will now have to bear in mind the opinion and interests of the BRICS countries,” President Assad said. To this he added that the BRICS powers were not assisting either his government of Syrian state per se and, instead, was holding out for stability in the region. There is one thing we all need to realize full well – if the crisis leads to Syria’s breakup or fills it with terrorists, then the crisis will inevitably spill over into the neighboring countries. That’s why BRICS is facing up to the West and is foursquare behind the principle of political settlement in Syria,” President Assad believes.

In excerpts released Wednesday, Assad said that Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has not uttered “a single word of truth" about Syria's conflict thus far.

Ankara is a key backer of the Syrian opposition.

Further excerpts were released Thursday, in which the Syrian president criticized the Arab League for last month handing a seat to the Syrian opposition National Coalition.