After Years of Friction, Turkey Is Trying to Mend Fences with Syria
Erdogan’s latest reversal of course.
September 16, 2022
After Years of Friction, Turkey Is Trying to Mend Fences with Syria
Erdogan’s latest reversal of course.
In a recent statement, the Turkish foreign minister mentioned that he had an informal meeting with his Syrian counterpart last year, in which the two discussed reconciliation between their countries, and ways to resolve the Syrian civil war. This points to a sharp departure from the expressly anti-Assad position Ankara adopted when the war began in 2011, from its support for anti-Assad rebels, and from the direct clashes between Turkish and Assad-regime troops in 2020. But as ever, Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s primary enemy remains the Kurdish quasi-state in northeastern Syria. Hay Eytan Cohen Yanarocak puts these recent developments into context:
September 16, 2022
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