Erdogan's Claims That Assad Is A 'Terrorist' Have No Legal Basis

"Such evaluations do not have any legal basis… Such statements are groundless," Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Maria Zakharova said during a briefing on Thursday, Sputnik reported.

She added that the representatives of the Syrian government are members of the UN and represent the country's government in the UN Security Council.

Erdogan labeled Assad “a terrorist” in a news conference in Tunis on Wednesday.

“Assad is definitely a terrorist who has carried out state terrorism,” Erdogan said, adding that “It is impossible to continue with Assad. How can we embrace the future with a Syrian President who has killed close to a million of his citizens?”

Erdogan underlined that peace would not come to Syria while Assad remained its President and that the Syrian government should play no part in designing the country’s political future.

Damascus on Wednesday held President of the Turkey responsible for shedding the Syrian blood, saying that its aggression and the entry of the Ankara forces to the Syrian territory reveals one image of the Turkey’s support to Takfiri terrorism.

Once again, Erdogan misleads the public opinion with his political bubbles in a desperate attempt to absolve himself from crimes committed against the Syrian people through providing unlimited support to the terrorist groups in Syria, which has become clear to the entire world, an official source at Foreign and Expatriates Ministry announced.

It affirmed that Erdogan, who has turned Turkey into a big jail and muzzled the mouth of media, intellectuals and everyone who opposes his destructive policies against Syria, lacks credibility to address preaches that show the range of his tension and confusion caused by his clumsy policies.

The Ministry concluded by stressing that Erdogan’s paranoia and illusions of the past made him forget that his old empire has vanished and that the free people of the world have the choice to make their national decisions and defend their sovereignty and will not allow Erdogan to interfere in their affairs.

Assad's government has faced militancy since March 2011, when governments opposed to him armed and financed some of his domestic political foes in an attempt to have him forcefully removed from power. Armed factions were soon joined by an array of international terrorists pouring into the country to help oust Syrian President.

But the government in Damascus persevered as different factions of the society rallied around Assad in the face of an all-out militancy. Syria's allies, Iran and Russia, also offered advisory military help, and Moscow launched an aerial bombardment campaign against terrorist groups in the country in September 2015 on a request from the Syrian government.