ROUGH CUT (NO REPORTER NARRATION)<br/> STORY: A day after 26 people were killed during what the Syrian government called a suicide attack in Damascus, President Bashar al Assad held talks with the leader of Turkey's Islamist-based Felicity Party, Mustafa Kamalak on Saturday (January 7).<br/> Syrian state television said Kamalak "voiced the Turkish peoples support for the Syrian people and confrontation of the conspiracy hatched against them."<br/> Some in the opposition said the government itself had staged the attack to try to show that it was fighting blind violence rather than a pro-democracy movement.<br/> State television went on to report that Kamalak expressed hope that Syria Turkish relations would return to normal soon.
