By Adem Kılıç, Political Scientist / Author The conflict in Syria, which has been going on for more than a decade and the global competition staged there, is rapidly moving towards a different level with the recent positive steps taken by Syria’s new leader Ahmed Ash-Shara. After weeks of negotiations between Ahmed Ash-Shara and the SDF, which is composed of ...
By İsmet Özçelik It is clear that there is a state of turmoil in Syria. The massacres in Latakia, the PKK/PYD-Damascus government agreement, the emergence of armed groups, and the resulting power vacuum all point to this turmoil. Professor Dr. Mehmet Yuva assessed the PKK/PYD-Damascus agreement document as follows: “The Arabic of the text is very poor. The paper it’s ...
By Yunus Soner Recent atrocities in the Syrian coastal region of the provinces of Latakia and Tartous shook the world, when civilians in huge numbers were killed by armed groups connected to the de facto Syrian government. Local witnesses and media reported that killings occurred without discrimination, but the Alawi, a current inside Islam, were targeted mostly, spurring fears of ...
By Doğu Perinçek, Chairman of Vatan (Patriotic) Party, Türkiye We are watching with concern and inexpressible pain the intense violence in Syria and the massacre of our brothers and sisters from every nation, sect and religion. The dreaminess of necromancy The step-by-step disintegration of Syria in front of our eyes, and moreover its destruction and occupation as a state, paves ...
By Kıvanç Özdal and Tevfik Kadan Ethem Sancak, deputy chairman and head of the international relations bureau of Türkiye’s Vatan Party (Patriotic Party), answered questions from journalists Kıvanç Özdal and Tevfik Kadan. Famous businessman Sancak assessed the possible global consequences of Donald Trump’s second presidential term. According to the Turkish politician, the former US administration led the world to a ...
By Fikret Akfırat One of the two groups that do not comply with the new Syrian government’s decision to eliminate armed groups and form a central army are the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a “disguise” of the PKK/YPG. The second group is the Syrian National Army (SNA) supported by Türkiye. Türkiye, which has the largest military force in Syria, and ...
About two months passed since the fall of Syria’s former president Bashar al-Assad. Türkiye is thought to be one of the key actors behind the march of the HTS forces through Damascus, the fall of Assad and now in formation of the new government. Still, Turkish government frequently makes statements articulating concerns on Syria’s “territorial integrity” and the “terrorism” in ...
Trump’s second presidency term has begun. What are the key characteristics that differs Trump from his opponents? How does his presidency relate to the rise of a multipolar world? What direction will his policies on West Asia, Türkiye and Syria take, and what factors will shape them? What steps has the Turkish government taken so far, and what should it ...
Ankara has been facing a serious problem for decades – PKK separatism, which manifests itself both within Türkiye and beyond its borders. In particular, in northern Syria, where the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) were formed. Ankara sees it as a direct continuation of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), recognized as a terrorist organization in Türkiye. This fact is the primary ...
By Islam Farag, Cairo / Egypt The approach that Gulf states are now taking in their relations with the de facto government in Syria, despite all the reservations and concerns about its background, suggests that the Gulf Arab regimes have learned a lesson from the catastrophic mistakes they made following the fall of the Sunni regime of Saddam Hussein in ...