General Manaf Tlass, a close associate of Bashar Assad, has defected and is en route to France, confirmed Laurent Fabius, the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, at the opening of the Friends of Syria Conference of in Paris on Friday. "General Tlass is in Turkey, but he is yet to contact the opposition," said Bourhan Ghalioun, the former leader of the Syrian National Council (SNC), the main opposition body against Bashar Assad. "We expect to contact him to see if he is joining the opposition," he said.
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