Are President Assad’s reforms too little too late?

Turkish protestors demonstrate in Beyazit Square, Istanbul against Syrian President Bashar Assad's government and the Baath Party. (File photo)

By JAMES M. DORSEY
SPECIAL TO AL ARABIYA

If the speech on April 16 by President Bashar al-Assad of Syria promising more transparency and consultation in government proves anything, it is that reform is likely to oc…