Turkey has lashed out against the Syrian government's crackdown on anti-government protests.<br /><br />Abdullah Gul, the Turkish president, said his country had lost its confidence in Syria, adding "there is no place for totalitarian regimes and one-party systems. Clearly these will change either by force of by political initiative taken by leaders of these states".<br /><br />Syria earlier objected to an Arab League statement demanding an end to the bloody crackdown.<br /><br />In the latest violence, activists said at least five people were killed by government troops across the country on Sunday.<br /><br />Al Jazeera's Nisreen El-Shamayleh reports from the Jordan-Syria border.
