Premier Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Turkey thought about how it could help end incidents in Syria and how it could help formation of government in Syria with the will of people.
"Therefore, everybody has to do something, Turkey cannot remain indifferent as a country that has 910-kilometer border with this country," Erdogan told reporters as he returned from Iran.
Erdogan said there were steps to be taken, and Turkey would do what it had to do regarding Syria, and hoped that Sunday's "Friends of Syria" meeting to take place in Istanbul would be beneficial.
A conference this weekend in Istanbul of the Friends of Syria group will look for ways to mount international pressure on Assad regime to stop year-old onslaught on the opposition and agree on a peaceful political transition.
The Istanbul gathering follows the first edition organized in Tunisia in February, and it comes just days after the Syrian regime's declared acceptance of a UN peace plan that includes government ceasefire as well as negotiations with the opposition for a political settlement.
Ankara aims with the conference to call for a concerted international voice to stop the bloodshed which apparently requires convincing Russia and China on changing their stance.
Turkey is also expected to renew a call for international help to deal with ever growing numbers of Syrians fleeing violence to Turkey's southern provinces which according to latest figures host nearly 18,000 Syrian nationals.
The wave of "Arab Spring" reached Syria on March 15, 2011 and Syrian people started to protest the government in a small southern city. The government responded with heavy-handed force, and demonstrations quickly spread across much of the country. Thousands of people are reported to be killed in ongoing protests in Syria so far.
Syria was expelled from the Arab League after it agreed to a peace plan only to step up attacks on protesters. In late 2011 and early 2012, Syria agreed to allow league observers into the country. But their presence did nothing to slow the violence.
In February, the United Nations General Assembly voted overwhelmingly to approve a resolution condemning President Bashar al-Assad's crackdown on the uprising, but China and Russia have blocked all efforts by the United Nations, the Arab League and others for a more forceful intervention.
In November 2011, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu unveiled a list of nine sanctions on Syria.
The number of Syrian citizens taking shelter in Turkey has reached 17,865.
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Turkey's prime minister said early on Friday that Turkey could not remain indifferent to developments in Syria.
