"Erdogan hasn't said any single word of truth since the beginning of the crisis," President Assad said in remarks to Turkish Ulusal TV station And Aydinlik Newspaper.
The Syrian leader also praised the martyr scholar, Sheikh Mohamad Said Ramadan al-Bouti, saying he "was an essential figure in thwarting the plot aiming to inflict a sectarian strife in Syria".
"For that they assassinated Dr Bouti, and two days ago they assassinated another cleric in Aleppo, and they assassinated a number of scholars before," President Assad told the Turkish television and daily, in an interview that will be published on Friday.
Syria has been experiencing unrest since March 2011 with organized attacks by well-armed gangs against Syrian police forces and border guards being reported across the country.
Hundreds of people, including members of the security forces, have been killed, when some protest rallies turned into armed clashes.
The government blames outlaws, saboteurs, and armed terrorist groups for the deaths, stressing that the unrest is being orchestrated from abroad.
