After what was leaked recently about Turkey’s attempt to restore relations with Damascus and after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan confirmed that these countries will judge the outcome through dialogue and diplomacy, the Turkish Foreign Minister officially He announced the issue.
Today, Tuesday, Mevlut Cavusoglu confirmed that there is a real conversation at the level of the intelligence services between the Syrian regime and Turkey.
He explained: “There is no precondition for Turkey to talk with the regime” and, according to him, he emphasized the need for “meaningful negotiations”.
He also added: “Intelligence services are investigating the motives of the protests in Syria.”
The announcement comes after repeated insinuations in the recent period that Turkey intends to restore relations with the Damascus regime, where Erdogan stressed in an interview with reporters last Friday that everyone should take more steps to achieve a final solution in Syria.
He also did not reject dialogue and diplomacy with the Syrian regime.
While Oglu emphasized in a previous interview that “understanding is a condition for establishing lasting peace and stability in Syria and called on the opposition to have a serious dialogue with the regime” and according to him “Turkey’s determined efforts”. To stop the war in Syria.”
However, the rapprochement, which began some time ago with the encouragement of Russia, has been met with Kurdish warnings, as a number of Kurdish officials expressed their fear of a deal in the north.
The Turkish government confirmed last week that Turkey’s rapprochement with the Syrian regime allows it to hit the “democratic project” in exchange for the entry of the regime’s forces into Idlib, and warned that “dangerous rapprochements and agreements create space for prolongation and deepening”. The Syrian crisis will open.” According to the officials of this organization, it helps to revive the ISIS terrorist organization.
Perhaps the signs of a rapprochement between Turkey and Syria are with the clear aim of finding a solution in the north (especially Idlib) and simultaneously with Ankara’s intention to return thousands of Syrian refugees to their country.
Especially since Turkey is suffering from an economic crisis that has hit its citizens hard by reducing purchasing power and increasing prices, and the refugee crisis has worsened the situation, as voices from both loyalists and dissidents have been raised. and demanding a solution to this issue
Since the start of the conflict in Syria in 2011, Ankara has provided substantial support to the political and military opposition.
Since 2016, it has launched three major military operations in Syria, mostly targeting Kurdish fighters, and its forces, in cooperation with Syrian groups loyal to them, have managed to control a large border area in northern Syria.
Source: Lebanon Debate
