Syrian refugees in Turkey Running mines. President Bashar Assad is not going to stop bloodshed and begin reforms in Syria, about which he buzzed all his ears to the world community. The property of publicity was the personal electronic correspondence of the four Assads: they are more interested in shopping, and reforms are, it turns out, “nonsense”, “food for parties and the press”. The Syrians are already running not only from bullets and shells, but also from the president-zinik.