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[mehmed beg]

Syria needs to think about moving the capital away from the south, or have a emergency team running the government from the north for security.

I think that they are pretty good at managing emergencies, maybe they should move to Aleppo.

 

[Iskander]

Syria needs to think about moving the capital away from the south, or have a emergency team running the government from the north for security.

Damascus is the oldest capital. Moving the capital to Aleppo would be tantamount to inviting

Netanyahu recently gave a television interview, and as he stood up to leave, he was asked one final question: "Do you believe in the Torah, where God promised the Jews a land within the known geography?" After a long, dramatic pause, Netanyahu smiled and replied, "I do."

In a similar situation, the Kazakhs did the opposite: when the Russians began openly asserting their claims to Kazakhstan's northern territories, the Kazakhs moved the capital from Almaty, the country's southernmost city, to Astana, the current capital, located 1,000 km north, closer to Russia.

 

[Huelague]

Why Mazlum Abdi meets on MSC (Munich Security Council) with German counterparts?

 

[Lool]

Why Mazlum Abdi meets on MSC (Munich Security Council) with German counterparts?

Germany and the USA were indirectly threatening both Turkey and Al-Sharaa and his govt by saying that the PKK/SDF arent alone and that not only Israel, but also Germany, France, and the US will protect the PKK

They were even given same level of respect/recognition as the Syrian foreign minister even though they are the losers of the recent war and have no official positions whatsoever.

 

[Shtr]

Why Mazlum Abdi meets on MSC (Munich Security Council) with German counterparts?

They think that they have not not lost yet. He clearly stated about independent and autonomous area in his speech.

 

[Huelague]

Germany and the USA were indirectly threatening both Turkey and Al-Sharaa and his govt by saying that the PKK/SDF arent alone and that not only Israel, but also Germany, France, and the US will protect the PKK

They were even given same level of respect/recognition as the Syrian foreign minister even though they are the losers of the recent war and have no official positions whatsoever.

I have my doubts about US position.

 

[Lool]

Recent news/rumors in Syria
🔺️The SDF has gone full psycho it seems. The SDF since 2 weeks have been carrying out an ethnic cleansing campaign within the Hasakah governorate with the main aim being expelling the Arabs from their homes and forcefully creating a kurdish-majority region by force! This is done by initiating a seige that literally prevents transportation, food, medicine, and services etc from going through between villages
for those who dont know, Hasakah city is mainly kurdish (around 65%). However, if you include all the surrounding villages/towns in Hasakah governorate, the Arabs become a majority with a staggering 70%.
The SDF/PKK wanna create a demographic change to enforce the Syrian govt to accept a kurdsih leadership, democratically in the worst case (as there will be no Arabs to vote against them)
🔺️As for the Syrian govt side, they are initiating utmost silence probably to avoid pissing the US during a time when a rumored deal for the Syrian govt to enter Suwaydah is on the horizon composed of having Al-Hijri and his commanders exiled to a third-party state
🔺️There are also rumors that Israel may begrudgingly sign a ceasefire deal within 3 months as long as no "unforseen" circumstances happen

The Syrian govt is playing a dangerous game rn; if they lose the bet they are making, hasakah governorate will overturn from being 70% arab to less than 30% arab at the current rate. Moreoverl according to many sources, the SDF has already cleared many neighbourhoods in Hasakah city from Arabs

 

[OPTIMUS]

Itai Anghel

Israeli correspondent and filmmaker at PJAK base.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2024592058455863792

 

[Saithan]

Syria to close 2 border gates with Türkiye—here’s why​

Zeytindali border crossing seen from above. (Photo: Türkiye's Ministry of Commerce)
By Omer Ozkizilcik

February 25, 2026 12:02 PM GMT+03:00

The Syrian government has apparently decided to close two border crossings opposite Türkiye’s Hatay and Sanliurfa provinces by the end of February, citing financial reasons and the proximity of alternative gates.

According to official correspondence sent to Ankara, the Hammam crossing opposite Hatay’s Zeytindali gate and the Rasul al-Ain crossing, opposite Ceylanpinar, will cease operations due to operating costs and redundancy.

Local business representatives in Hatay reacted swiftly.

The head of the Reyhanli Chamber of Commerce warned that the decision could disrupt regional trade and further burden the already congested Cilvegozu Border Gate. Infrastructure limitations, insufficient X-ray capacity, and logistical bottlenecks, he argued, are already straining cross-border commerce. Closing Zeytindali’s counterpart, critics fear, will only increase pressure.

Yet viewing the decision solely through the lens of Turkish local trade misses the broader strategic shift underway in Syria.

Background​

The Hammam crossing was originally opened under extraordinary conditions. At the height of Russian bombardment in Idlib, it provided an alternative route to Atme and Bab al-Hawa Border Crossing, allowing access to Afrin from the west without exposure to aerial threats.

Those battlefield dynamics no longer define northern Syria. The immediate security rationale that justified multiple overlapping crossings has faded.

Similarly, the Rasul al-Ain Border Crossing was once economically indispensable. Together with Tel Abyad, it endured years of SDF-imposed isolation. For nearly seven years, access to Türkiye functioned as the region’s only economic lifeline. With the de facto blockade broken and territorial realities altered, the urgency that once justified maintaining multiple low-volume crossings has diminished.

Syrians shop outside the Umayyad Mosque in the Old City of Damascus on February 18, 2026, a day ahead of the start of the holy fasting month of Ramadan. (AFP Photo)

Syrian rationale​

For Damascus, border gates are not merely transit points; they are revenue-generating state assets.

Maintaining underperforming crossings demands administrative capacity, qualified personnel and financial resources—all of which are scarce in a state recovering its institutions. When alternative gates exist within 5 to 15 kilometers, keeping redundant facilities open may create inefficiency rather than resilience.


From a Syria-wide logistical perspective, the Bab al-Hawa Border Crossing serves as the primary economic artery for trade with Türkiye. It provides a direct corridor into Idlib, extending southward toward Hama, Homs, and Damascus.

Further northwest, the Bab al-Salama Border Crossing links the Turkish industrial center of Gaziantep with Aleppo, Syria's primary economic hub. In contrast, the Hamam Border Crossing situated between them holds relatively little significance in the current Syrian landscape.

This move appears less like a political signal toward Ankara and more like fiscal consolidation. Syria’s interim authorities are transitioning from emergency wartime management to state-building. Rationalizing border infrastructure fits that logic.

Syria to close 2 border gates with Türkiye—here’s why - Türkiye Today

The Syrian government closed two border crossings opposite Türkiye’s Hatay and Sanlıurfa provinces by the end of February

www.turkiyetoday.com

 

[Tabmachine]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2014790239563481365

Turkiye is probably one the friendliest and least racist places on earth. If the Kurds can't integrate here peacefully, they cannot do it anywhere on earth. If us Turks were like the common European who treats any brown skinned race as no more then low iq inferior gypsies, maybe then i could understand their greviences. Still wouldn't justify their separatism, but maybe then i could understand why their so bitter and hateful.

But the reality is simple, its a massive insecurity complex, a naive Turkic population combined with relentless instigations and transgressions by the west. But in all truth the traitors should be annihilated within Turkiye. As if these bastards are going to beg isreal to come and kill us.

Very good observations. Kurds have all the rights of a Turk. Even in the old days they were elected to the parliament, and became ministers and even presidents. There were only couple of localized uprisings in the past, due to british manipulation, which were supressed a bit harshly, but this was needed actually because the tumult was ongoing and the state existence was in danger. They are overexaggerated somehow, but I think the animosity of kurds to Turks is due to inferiority complex. They were around Zagros mountains thousends of years but couldn't establish any state. We came from central Asia in a storm and established several states and actually civilizations. So that is the reason. That's why they yearn for their own country and most hate us, which is unfortunate.

As a young men in 1990s, I was more tolerant and had friends from all walks of life at the university. From left to right, all the spectrum, as well as some well-off kurdish ones with whom I used to party sometimes. One night we were chatting after some drinks, and one of them said to the other, Hey did you hear what our heroes did the other day? He was referring to PKK terrorists martyring our soldiers. There was really no reason for this animosity. They were getting education in a Turkish university, driving their own cars as a student, partying often here and there, discussing which jeans were cooler Trussardi or Armani, and changing Turkish girl friends every other month.

Sorry didnt get back to you guys on this from way back.

Yeah Turks are some of the friendliest most accepting people around for sure, based on my first-hand experiences. A breath of fresh air from the racism that goes every which way in the current Muslim demographic.

It's a complex matter, and so are the very similar analogues in Pakistan as well as plenty of other places across the world. National boundaries with often-times ethnic foundations were drawn over what used to be imperial territories, and different peoples have responded to that in different ways. Ultimately, matters like this are best understood by those with lived experience and "skin in the game", and external analysis while possible will always be subject to limitations.

I think the dilemma of Kurdish separatism speaks to why however we choose to organize our politics (whether along the lines of a Pakistan, or Turkiye), we need to be driven by moral-vision rather than egotism. If it is just "the pride of religious/ethnic domination/self-determination" that is sought, the door is open for all kinds of mis-steps, which Kurdish separatists have unfortunately produced habitually (much like their Zionist compatriots). If we look at the founding of the Turkish national concept, it is a civic concept not a racial concept principally, and I think that is an important distinction. It is accepting of whomever is willing to accept it, and I think the Turkish people too are this way.

 

[Huelague]

Sorry didnt get back to you guys on this from way back.

Yeah Turks are some of the friendliest most accepting people around for sure, based on my first-hand experiences. A breath of fresh air from the racism that goes every which way in the current Muslim demographic.

It's a complex matter, and so are the very similar analogues in Pakistan as well as plenty of other places across the world. National boundaries with often-times ethnic foundations were drawn over what used to be imperial territories, and different peoples have responded to that in different ways. Ultimately, matters like this are best understood by those with lived experience and "skin in the game", and external analysis while possible will always be subject to limitations.

I think the dilemma of Kurdish separatism speaks to why however we choose to organize our politics (whether along the lines of a Pakistan, or Turkiye), we need to be driven by moral-vision rather than egotism. If it is just "the pride of religious/ethnic domination/self-determination" that is sought, the door is open for all kinds of mis-steps, which Kurdish separatists have unfortunately produced habitually (much like their Zionist compatriots). If we look at the founding of the Turkish national concept, it is a civic concept not a racial concept principally, and I think that is an important distinction. It is accepting of whomever is willing to accept it, and I think the Turkish people too are this way.

Pakistan is one of our closest ally. That’s why they hold them busy with Afghanistan.