FILE PHOTO: Turkish soldiers seen at the border town of Akcakale © Reuters / Murad Sezer
Ankara is expecting Damascus to understand its position with regard to the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG), Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said on March 12.
“We are expecting Damascus to understand our position towards the YPG,” the minister said during an interview with the Anadolu Agency. “We support the continuation of talks between Ankara and Damascus after the technical meetings that will take place next week.”
The technical meetings, set to be held in Moscow, will be attended by the deputy foreign ministers of Russia, Turkey, Syria and Iran.
“We are not occupiers of the Syrian territory, and our presence there aims to combat terrorism, and protect our borders and territorial integrity,” Akar added.
Turkey considers the YPG to be the Syrian branch of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). The faction is the core of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) which control vast parts of northern and eastern Syria with direct support from the United States.
Damascus opposes Kurdish forces and has clashed with them on several occasions in the past. Nevertheless, it does not consider them to be terrorist groups as the case with Ankara.
President Bashar al-Assad discussed the Turkish-Syrian normalization process with Iranian foreign minister Hussein Amir Abdollahia during a meeting in Damascus earlier this week. At the time, the president said that the interests of the Syrian people should be the basis for any new steps towards Ankara.
The normalization process gained momentum last December, when the defense ministers and intelligence chiefs of the two countries met in Moscow.
Despite all recent progress, Damascus will not likely restore ties with Ankara without a clear plan for a Turkish military withdrawal from Syrian territory. Ankara may not be willing to make such a concession right now.
“We are not occupiers of the Syrian territory, and our presence there aims to combat terrorism, and protect our borders and territorial integrity,” Akar added.
Turkey is part of NATO and they play their role during ISIL in Syria, Turkey needs to understand that. Also, they are jumping ships now, not Syria so they need to claim down and understand their position.
We wouldn’t know how these talks going to change anything on the ground yet, but we saw China finishing the Iran-KSA normalization and I would guess this is done by Russia and they really are trying to reach something here. TBH, it is the right way and they need to come to a understanding.
LMFAO, who has to go again? Hahahaha, Zelenskyy I guess.
I don’t understand why they can’t just work together on the Kurdish issue. The Kurds occupy large parts of Syria, including most of the oil fields, and the Turks want the Kurds dealt with. It seems to me that Ankara and Damascus would be natural allies. Perhaps it’s because Erdogan still wants to annex Syria for the Ottoman Reich.
I believe, in the future, there will be war for the Euphrates. Turks and Iraqis will be on one side, Syrians and Kurds on the other. And Iran will be neutral.
We all know how rtded you are kiddo. Do you have more to say as to why would that happen again? No, so maybe stfu. “I believe” okay good one clown.
Are you nuts or something?
No, Turkey did support ISIL in Syria with the US/NATO and Israel, let’s not ignore what they did in Syria. Kurds didn’t do that and at first they worked with Syrian government (Russia and Iran included) to fight ISIL. BUT my problem with Kurd right now is they made a deal with the US to cut part of Syria and take it for themselves. How do you think the US is stealing from Syria? They made SDF and they are occupying those oil field and the US see them as the owners.
Syrian government have to deal with that, they will never trust Turkey no one should really they love to play both side after all. Kurds are morons and once the US is done for they getting fuked right after and the US doesn’t care about them as much.
Now, ask yourself, would you work with Turkey to “fight” Kurds?
Once you supported Turkey and called them Kurdish gangs. Now you support these “Kurdish gangs”.
Like I said don’t get your hopes up for nothing, it is most likely going to normalization deal between Syria and Turkey. It is very soon to talk about the big problems.
In opposition, basement dwellers will do bad.
The only thing I’m doing is your mother.
Basement dwellerism has bad results for health. This proves it.
And Ankara should understand Islams position on traitor kemal atachicken.
No atachicken traitors allowed in Jannah.
No faggots allowed in Jannah.
No faggot jews allowed in Jannah.
ATATURK. KEMAL ATATURK
^butthurt imitator shill
Proof:
Saeed Nursi – Risale E Noor
#byatch
No psychopaths allowed in Jannah.
Yes faggots are degenerate adrenochrome blood deinking psycopaths.
Unit 731 is drinking adrenochrome. SS are drinking meth. HTS is drinking captagon.
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In the past, the Assad regime helped the PKK. There will be an agreement to incorporate the SDF into the SAA and attack HTS.
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It sounds that you are scared about your anal virginity.