Even Aksener is keen on making peace with Assad..............
Akşener, leader of the opposition İYİ (Good) Party, has criticized the government’s policy on Syria, suggesting that Turkish President Recep Tayyip
www.arabobserver.com
Am I right in thinking that more people (mainly young ) support repairing ties with Syria?
I suppose its quite the predicament, on the one hand people use nationalism as a motive to 'send back Syrians' in Turkey, so 'Turks' can 're-access' jobs 'taken by Syrians' - who perhaps wouldn't mind the lower pay. On the other hand, there are those who use nationalism to back the notion of operations in Northern Syria.
Its a real shame, because for some reason, Erdogan doesn't see that Russia not only back Assad - who bomb's Turkish allies and even Turkish troops, but he fails to see that Russia continues to fly over Idlib actively targeting Turkish bases. Anytime there's an operation its always to push back Kurdish militias, rather than dealing with the real problem, Russia and the Syrian regime.
I mean look at this ^, Erdogan is desperate to enhance trade between USA (which is largely untapped - and can be source for export growth) but at the same time he criticises Biden........
"Erdogan says he will have a private meeting with Putin on Sep 29, no other officials would be allowed to join • We will make a decision on the fate of the Turkish, Russian relations. We will also discuss Syria • We haven’t seen any Russian mistake towards our relations".
And if you look at the real problem in Syria (Russia and Regime) he says the complete opposite. I mean what do you expect out of this "private meeting"? Putin is obviously going to do what is possible to re-take land (I wouldn't be surprised if Russian jets are in the air bombing Turkish soldiers at the time of the meeting).
Assad wants Idlib. Russia will do what is necessary to make sure that the rest of Northern Syria is retaken - imagine the political clout Russia would recieve for 'ending the Syrian civil war' and recovering 95% of Syrian land... That's why any cooperation what so ever with Russia is political suicide.....
Further, what does one expect to be the result of the meeting on Idlib?
1) If Turkey co-operates it mostly likely means giving up further land south of the M4 highway --> however, eventually you'd expect the SAA to demand more land (eventually give up the entirety of Idlib). This would certainly result in mass movement of over 3.5 million Syrian refugees towards Turkey.......
2) Turkey does not co-operate with Russia: Russia steps up its bombing campaign on Idlib, perhaps clearing way for a SAA operation in the south. This once again leads to wave of refugees heading towards the Turkish border.
- Turkey must be willing to start a massive operation to take the entirety of northern Syria (to have control of the border) and then, reinforce this with land bases and a sort of "Iron Dome" system to intercept missiles of the border. Only then can one talk about settling of Refugees.....
- Either that or you make peace with someone. Assad or SDF
