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Turkey is yet to provide any guarantees affirming that it would withdraw its forces from Syria, Al-Mayadeen TV reported on September 4, citing Syrian sources with knowledge on efforts to reconcile the two countries.
The sources told the Lebanese news channel that there is still no assurances or guarantees regarding a Turkish withdrawal from Syria, noting that “there is nothing new in the statements of Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on this matter.”
There is no “indication that necessitates holding any meeting at the ministerial or presidential level between Syria and Turkey anytime soon,” the sources added.
On August 31, Lavrov announced that a meeting involving Russia, Iran, Turkey, and Syria to discuss the normalization of relations between Ankara and Damascus would take place soon.
“The Turks are ready for this [withdrawal], but so far it has not been possible to agree on specific terms,” the minister said at the time. “We are talking about the return of refugees, and the measures necessary to suppress the terrorist threat, which will make the stay of the Turkish contingents unnecessary. All of this is in the works.”
Speaking to Al-Mayadeen, the sources maintained that the principles announced by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, which allow for the restoration of relations between the two countries, including determining a reference in which the negotiation process is based on international law, are still standing.
They stressed that one of these principles is the recognition of the withdrawal from Syrian territory, with the agreement on how this would happen left for later.
Turkey severed ties with Syria in 2011 after the outbreak of the war, in which it supported rebels looking to oust Assad. Ankara’s involvement grew dramatically in the last eight years, as its forces took over large parts of northern and eastern Syria.
Earlier this year, Russia stepped up efforts to reconcile Syria and Turkey, with both Iran and Iraq intervening to help. The process saw some progress with both Assad and his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, expressing readiness to meet.
Nevertheless, the issue of Turkish military presence in Syria appears to have brought the process to halt yet again, with Ankara unwilling to compromise.
Despite the fact that both sides are facing the same issues, like the growing influence of Kurdish forces, a breakthrough remains highly unlikely, at least for the time being.
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turks can be negotiated with, and they will leave. americans on the other hand, like zionists, must be sent home in bodybags. that is the only language they understand.
trusting erdogan is the same like trusting zelensky or biden. give me only one example when any deal lavrov made with his beloved westrn “partners” was not a disaster for russia. especially explain me how it is possible that erdogan is selling drones to azerbaijan to kill armens protected by russia (now armenia realized that russian protection is worthless and kicked lavrov politicians and putin soldiers to their fat ass but it took them quite long).
would have to agree with that.
the donmeh erdogan is a follower of sabbattai zvi and jacob frank he is a satanist windbag selling rape and pillage for his partners in tel aviv
sisi of egypt is a real authentic jew unlike his partners in tel aviv
house of sand and qatar are mi6 city of london wall street and city of london owned
oded yinon and new khazharia are ongoing moloch baal baphomet slaughter projects for the synagogue of satan
just get out of syria and stop supporting the wrong side.
right?????
wrong side ? lol. you are suggesting russia is a good side ? look, syria is screwed by both sides, russian and americans as well with the only difference that americans are fighting only for resource and global domination using cheap proxy soldiers but russia has no money so they send conscripts. but for syria it is not a difference who is screwing them at the moment, they are the second worst world country just after afghanistan – another playground of russia-u.s. proxy wars.
for some reason turkey supported the head hacking maniacs, if russia had not gone in the black flag of isis would be flying in damascus with severed heads all over the place.
who you trying to fool here?
vanya changed her name to huhu???
turkey will be able to pull the middle east together against israel for it is written..!
torki lorki porkis better start giving some guarantees, or no brics for them, they better start getting right with life
and i will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws, and i will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords: persia, ethiopia, and libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet: gomer, and all his bands; the house of togarmah of the north quarters, and all his bands: and many people with thee
turkeys very astute in diplomatic negotiations. very experienced with the nature of international relations
sure thing donmeh turk
can you just hold my knife while i turn my back on you : )
definitely you’ve been hurt by turks.. scumbag
what is syria going to do about the kurds? i assume this is the hangup ?
the kurds are us puppets they could have sided with syria but they didn’t.
if he do this, he’ll be my hero.
if they are still protecting their little terrorists in syria, why let them in brics? what kind of sick game is this?
this is a real pickle turkey is finding itself in. i think we might see turkey double cross nato, but will russia and friends bail turkey out of it’s knee deep addiction to western capital when it leaves nato? why would any mostly muslim country work with nato when the main nato player is a known committer of muslim genocide, and christian genocide as well, why is anyone still in nato? it basically serves zionist genocide…