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President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani on December 3 that Turkey’s priority was keeping calm borders and that Syria’s government needs to engage in a real political process to de-escalate events in its north.
“Erdogan stated that Turkey, in accordance with its national security and interests, is taking steps to prevent the PKK terrorist organization and its extensions from taking advantage of the developments and would take [further] steps,” Turkey’s presidency said in a readout of a phone call.
Erdogan also told al-Sudani during the call that Turkey valued Syria’s territorial integrity, unity and stability, adding that Ankara wanted to avoid civilian deaths.
The Turkish President’s remarks came nearly a week after al-Qaeda-affiliated Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham and its allies, including armed factions backed by Ankara, launched a large-scale offensive in northwestern Syria.
The militants captured some 800 square kilometers from government forces within a few days, including the key city of Aleppo.
The offensive was launched on November 27 from HTS-held pocked in Idlib, which was under a ceasefire deal brokered by Russia and Turkey more than four years ago. Ankara maintains a large force and it clearly had advanced knowledge of the offensive. Yet, it did nothing to stop it.
Erdogan is now attempting to capitalize on the success of the offensive by setting demands for the Syrian government, most notable to share power with the militants.
Turkey has for over a decade sought to overthrow Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and while there were reports of a rapprochement over the last two years, the HTS-led offensive shows that Ankara never really changed its plans when it comes to Syria.
Turkish foreign minister, Hakan Fidan, said after meeting his Iranian counterpart, Abbas Araghchi, for emergency talks in Ankara on December 2 that the crisis in Syria was the result of Assad’s refusal to engage in political dialogue with the opposition.
Fidan said at the joint press conference: “It would be wrong to explain recent developments in Syria with foreign intervention. The latest developments show the need for Damascus to reconcile with its people and the legitimate opposition.”
Calling on the Syria government to come to the negotiating table, he added: “We don’t want to see cities falling into ruin; we don’t want to see people displaced. Stopping refugee flow and having people returning to their homes is essential.” But he also warned against excessive external interventions, and said Turkey could act as a mediator between Assad and the militants.
Turkey received vast support from international and regional powers when it first moved to support the Syrian opposition after the outbreak of the war in 2011. However, the situation is very different now with the country receiving solid support from its key allies, Russia and Iran.
In addition, many other regional powers, including Saudi Arabia, Jordan and the United Arab Emirates, do not want Syria to fall into the hands of Turkey-backed militants.
Still, Erdogan could rely on support from both the United States and Israel if he decides to continue to escalate against the Syrian government. These three countries remain the biggest beneficiaries of the HTS-led offensive in northwestern Syria.
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turkey is an untrustworthy dog. i would never allow turkey into the brics countries. they will shoot you in your back.
“erdogan is a man of his word”.
do you remember who made the statement above not long ago? so how can he shoot his brics partners?
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i guess it was meant as a joke. because he is truly a backstabbing son of bit*h. zionist lover. like a dog that only attacks the weakest and gives hot air to gaza
very true. erdogan will act as a trojan horse, sabotaging brics from within to serve us and zionist interests.
they are filthy dogs. erdogan is the muslim brotherhood he wants an ottoman empire its time we dissolve his ambitions. israel can support him all they want but sooner or later the erdogan dog will come to bite them. israel is effectively helping the muslim brotherhood taking over syria and once that happens they will have a 2nd hamas on their borders. good for them more war thanks to that idiot erdogan
what will happen is that erdogan will give israel the war it wants the war it needs to expand into syria and annex land for greater israel. from the nile to the euphrates they want to remove all arabs living there and annex the land for themselves. erdogan is helping them into achieving this hes a filthy dog. just like shabbos goy aliyev who ethnically cleansed artsakh with israeli help and israeli drones.
why do people still join the army ! you must be tired of life and very stupid. who else wants to be killed or maimed for the sake of the rich.
so if you don’t who’s gonna protect your country your borders hello…sisi
all wars are bankers wars !!!
which army are you talking about?
bomb any turkish soldier out of syria. no more talks with treacherous dogs.
if you want to live and see tomorrow you don’t even think about that… dirty filthy cockroaches
turks need to leave syria, if they want to see tomorrow and live!!!
goodluck to ukraine 2.0
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from sultan to bibi’s lap dog in just few days… erdogan must fall, and his fall will be something to see.
we like turkey turds–in denmark they clean our toilets lick boots
in finland both turks and russians are our coworkers and we respect them. if you said me this same in finland, i would make your lights go out. i hate racists and i hate nazies. for me they are the same. adolf hitler = jens holm.
its time erdogan gets removed from power
erdoğan’s case between west is kind of stick and carrot trick, don’t be confused with neo-ottomanism. his role is filling gaps with brute force and strong proxies if needed.
why do you keep trying to mislead the sunnis that erdogan is cooperating with israel and america in syria? this is brainwashing.
every sunni should frequent my blog to know what’s really going on in the muslim world.
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snake erdogan is in bed with israel, supplying stolen syrian oil to israel.
who is misleading who? to say that erdo is not in bed with israel/u.s. is the height of ignorance…or more likely just bs. israel would be coughing up blood if erdo wasn’t keeping them supplied with fuel. how is that not supporting them? now erdo has issued his demands? deal with terrorists and submit his country to complete dissolution, the main goal. erdo is salivating over aleppo.
teraz sa vyfarbí!!! erdogan brojil proti izraelu a teraz by ho mal mať za spojenca? to mi akosi hlava neberie. tu bude za tým niečo iné, niečo čo my nevidíme. irán a rusko by mali vytlačiť najskôr usa zo sýrie alebo okupačné vojská zničiť ak sa sami nepoberú. potom až následne sa vysporiadať s erdoganom a tureckom. svetu mier!!!
from the globalist play book erdoğan blames syria (the victim) for his aggression against syria. obliviously in collusion with the zionist deep state he will surely carve out an oil rich piece for himself. though considering himself a master politician he is only carving out a destiny with death.when dealing with the west.
he has always said aleppo is turkish and he wants it back. he is trying to revive the empire, with him on the throne. he will have to do it without real allies, no one trusts him. now he’s back in bed with the bunch that tried to assassinate him. maybe he awoke the other day with a horse head in bed with him. he should be renamed president flip-flop, the zionist backstabber.
erdogan is a snake, in bed with israel for years.
from the globalist playbook erdoğan blaming his syrian victims for his war of aggression. obviously in collusion with the zionists. probably carving an oil rich piece for himself in exchange. though he must consider himself a master politician he is only creating a destiny with death when dealing with the west.
and that death should come as soon as possible for the sake of the entire middle east.
3 years ago he was putin best friend until he shot down the russian jet lol
sultan erdogan is another fake islamic leader like the hashemite british ass kisser in amman and the donmeh sissi in cairo, the gulf arab money sheikhs. only iran is the true islamic country in the middle east, anti imperialist and identifies the threats as big satan and little satan. the rest are hopeless. but pragmatically, iran and russia have to deal with turkey. they cannot ignore turkey.
erdogan is a disgrace the first city to be attacked at the start of the war was aleppo and the terrorist filth came over the border from turkey, there isn’t much that has changed since then with erdogan, what gets me is he supports those head hackers who would turn syria into a islamist extremist hellhole but he doesn’t want that for turkey, so there is nothing to talk about with so called opposition.
time to support the pkk and arm them well. they can take a big part out off the criptojews cake. the opposition in turky has also need for armament to liberate the country from yankee and all foraing troops. eradicate his politicians !!!
when turkey shot down a russian jet, a few days later a video showed online of pkk fighters downing a turkish helicopter. erdogan then changed his tone towards russia and unfortunately russia dropped their support for the pkk. this time arm the pkk to the teeth plz. pkk gladly to do the dirty work.
equation is very simple: big russia x dwarf leader = little russia. if the dwarf and his oligarchs remain in power for just five more years, russia will lose the kuril islands, siberia, belarus, armenia, georgia, iran and syria.
turdeus my senile ex husband–how is your aids dementia—did nice homosexual counselor find you homeless housing in basement
after everyone in syria is dead, they should just emplace the equipment and activate ads and post ‘stay out’ warnings online. if the robots kill you after that, you can’t say there was no warning given.
i’m very glad..everyoy loves erdogan he’s a great leader 💪
sleazy turks are gud at cleaning toilets