Syrian President Bashar al-Assad during the interview with Sky News Arabia. Source: the Syrian Presidency Office.
Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad blamed Turkey for terrorism in his war-torn country and insisted on the withdrawal of the Turkish military from Syria in an interview with Sky News Arabia that was aired on August 9.
“Terrorism in Syria is made in Turkey,” al-Assad said.
The president also denied rumors of an upcoming meeting with his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan despite recent progress in the normalization talks between their two countries.
Ankara is still the main backer of Syrian rebels. The Turkish military controls vast parts of Syria’s northern and eastern region. It also maintains a large presence in the northwestern region of Greater Idlib, which is ruled by an al-Qaeda offshoot.
Damascus insists that Ankara must put forward a timetable for the withdrawal of its military from Syria in order to normalize relations.
“Erdogan’s objective in meeting me is to legitimize the Turkish occupation in Syria,” Assad said in the interview. “Why should I and Erdogan meet? To have soft drinks?”
The Turkish and Syrian foreign ministers met in Moscow last May. During the meeting, an agreement to prepare a draft road map for the normalization of relations between Ankara and Damascus.
Turkish-Syrian normalization talks slowed down after the meeting. However, Alexander Lavrentiev, the special representative of the Russian President for Syria, revealed in an interview with RIA Novosti in June that Moscow had prepared the draft road map.
In July, Erdogan told reporters that he is open to talks with al-Assad but would not meet him if a withdrawal of Turkish troops from Syria were set as a condition.
Al-Assad’s latest remarks indicate that the major disagreements between Ankara and Damascus are yet to be resolved. Without compromises from both sides, the normalization talks, which are backed by Russia and Iran, will not likely move forward.
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sf is jew cotrolled, i try to post a statement on erdogone and his terrorists. sf refuses to edit.
what do you talking about?
the jews are controlled by druids.
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of course. al assad is real mujaheed. he never betrayes his country. why should he even met with ape from ananakarina if that pig keeps syria in this blackmailed position? wtf he’s talking about some compromises, thats whack. turkey is agressioor in this case and turks are above average stupid cunts of the ppl.
no all-ass-hat never betrays his country. he just sells some of it off – like he did with khmeimim and tartus to russia. and he sells a lot of drugs too. he’s a drug lord and an idiot. he’s too weak to do anything about the turks. they took part of his country and all he can do is yap crap.
you’re such an imbecile.
yeah… it must be erdogan or israel or the us. or anyone else. can’t be ass-hat himself. the fool’s the worst president syria’s ever had. he only got the job because his brother died. his father must be spinning in his grave every time ass-hat opens his trap. he should’ve stuck to making glasses. but the loser probably failed at that too.
get lost, cunt.
turkey has been the problem in syria since day one and still are.
lol, nice sublte quip about soft drinks. erdolf makes good money from that. mr assad is classy and smart.
i have mentioned many times that the turks go to a place to persecute, kill, loot, dishonor and if the people do not react to expel them they will sit there until they die.
we should not sit idle, whack them cunts straigh bloody hell.
we pay erdogan to destabilize syria—then he betray us attack our kurdy terrorists
for what purpose should syria’s assad meet with erdo?