ISTANBUL (AA) - August 7, 2012 - Bureaucrats have begun to break from Syrian regime too after Prime Minister Riad Hijab and Prime Ministry spokesman Mohammad Otari defected to opponents.
Shaam News Network (SNN) stated on Tuesday that security officials from Aleppo, Tartus and Hasseke Muhammed Naim Ahmed Timmari, Ahmed Abdulkadir Isa, Heysem Abdulhamid, Zekeriya Mustafa Haj Hussein and Aleppo Police Hospital's Chief Doctor Hussein Sheikh Asaf quit their posts and defected to opponents.
Syrian administration did not make any statement about the breaks.
Prime Minister Hijab and spokesman Otari, two days ago, quit their posts and escaped to Jordan.
Syrian premier defects from al-Assad regime due to massacres
IRBIL (AA) - August 7, 2012 - Syrian National Council (SNC) executive member Bassam Ishak has said that Prime Minister Riad Hijab defected to opponents due to massacres in the country.
Ishak told AA on Tuesday that Hijab defected to opponents because of the massacres committed by Bashar al-Assad's forces.
Break of Hijab has clearly shown the separation in al-Assad administration, Ishak said.
Expressing pleasure over Hijab's joining their side, Ishak said that resignation of Hijab had been one of the most important ones so far.
Hijab resigned due to attacks and massacres staged by al-Assad administration in several regions of the country, said Ishak, adding that the resignation came especially after the massacres committed in Deir ez-Zor, the birth place of the prime minister.
