One of the Turkey’s main motives for sending troops to Syria and providing military assistance to anti-Damascus militants is to overthrow the Syrian government and returning the Arab country to the Ottoman Empire , says a US political commentator.

While urging the truth to be told, Bayes said: “The last thing that the world needs is a harrumphing self-righteousness from Christians who do not see the glass house in which they live.” He said the church was “a fallen and a broken community”. Marking the start of a new decade, Paul Bayes, the bishop of Liverpool, said the past decade had been “low and dishonest”.