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Supporting terrorists in Syria, eliminating the revolution

YAHIYA AL-HABIB/NEWS DESK

With the start of the revolutions of peoples in the region, Erdogan sought to intervene directly in all countries whose peoples revolted against their dictatorships in the hope of quick access to the summit and re-glorification of the Ottoman Empire to appoint himself as a successor to the Muslims, so he supported the Muslim Brotherhood groups, and when the revolution began in Syria in the 15 of March 2011 Erdogan rushed to gather the Muslim Brotherhood leaders who were present in Turkey, to organize them and intervene through them in the Syrian affairs to achieve his ambitions.

Erdogan, who pushed the Syrians to fight and war to serve his interests and then sold them to the regime and the Russians as he does now, “Soon I will pray at the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus," the first signs of his intervention in Syria appeared on June 1, 2011 when the Turkish city Antalya hosted the so-called "Syrian Conference for Change" organized by Muslim Brotherhood  present in Turkey.

The most important armed gangs established by Turkey

After the announcement of the formation of the Free Army on July 29, 2011 by the dissident colonel Hussein Harmoush, who fled to Turkey but mysteriously disappeared in August, when Turkey began to infiltrate the militants and establish armed gangs.

Over the course of the Syrian crisis, which is approaching the end of its eighth year, Turkey has formed many armed gangs and supported terrorist gangs. The most important gangs formed by Turkey, which still exist so far and receive support are:

Brigades in the names of the Ottoman sultans

Since the beginning of the Syrian crisis, Turkey has formed many armed groups and named them after the Ottoman sultans such as Liwa al-Sultan Murad, Liwa al-Sultan Mohammed al-Fateh, Liwa al-Sultan Selim, Liwa Alb Arslan. These gangs were active in the northern countryside of Aleppo and Aleppo city, as Turkey viewed Aleppo as an Ottoman state and sought to annex it. Turkey provided material, logistic and military support, as well as trained the elements of these gangs in Turkey.

Noraddin al-Zanki Movement

One of the most important gangs supported by Turkey in the countryside of Aleppo, formed in late 2011 by Sheikh Tawfiq Shihab al-Din in Sheikh Suleiman village northwest of Aleppo, and in July 2016, an online video of a gang of members of this gang appeared and they slaughtered a 15-year-old child. The movement allied itself with Jabhat al-Nasra.

Movement of Ahrar al-Sham

It is one of the militant gangs that emerged in the early years of the Syrian crisis. It was formed by four gongs: Kataib Ahrar al-Sham, Hereket Fajer al-Islamiya, Jemaat al-Talia al-Islamiya and Kataib al-Iman. This gang is financed by Turkey and Qatar.

Liwa Seqour al-Jabel

It is a gang active in Idlib was originally part of "Alwit Ahfad al-Resoul" and later joined "Ahra Thewar Syria," which was active in the province of Idlib and was eliminated by Jabhat al-Nusra later and expelled from there. The gang takes its name from al-Zawia mount in Idlib.

Al-Jabha al-Shamiya

It is a gang of Islamic and Salafist groups from Aleppo city including:  Kataib Noraddin al-Zanki, the remnants of Liwa al- Tewhid, Jaish al-Mujahedeen, al-Jabha al-Islamiya, and Tejem Faesteqem Kema Omert,Jabhat al-Asala Weltenmiya and the remnants Hezem Movement and hundreds of other armed gangs gathered by Turkey in one body.

Jaish al-Naser

They are small gangs scattered in the countryside of Hama, Idlib and Lattakia, assembled in one body on behalf of Jaish al-Naser.

Ferqet al-Hamza

It is a gang trained by Turkey and announced its establishment in April 2016 and a Turkmen gang called "Liwa Samarqand Brigade"  joined it in relation to Samarqand city in Uzbekistan. This gang was one of the first Turkish gangs that entered Jarablos in 2017 from Qarqamish gate accompanied by the Turkish army and occupied the city in cooperation with the Turkish occupation army.

Jabhat al-Nusra

It is affiliated with al-Qaeda and changed its name to Jabhat Fatah al-Sham and later to Hayet Tahrir al-Sham. It was formed in late 2011,

The gang operates in Idlib and announced an Islamic emirate there in cooperation with other mercenary gangs belonging to Turkey. This gang receives support from Turkey, which it classified in August of 2018 as a terrorist organization and therefore to dispel the suspicions of itself as supporting a gang linked to al-Qaeda and classified in the list of international terrorism.

At the beginning of August of 2018, the Russian news agency Sputnik quoted sources as saying that Turkey had supplied six truckloads of liquid chlorine (used in the chemical industry) to Jabhat al-Nusra which in turn provided two truckloads to the Turkistan Islamic Party.

Turkestan Islamic Party

The Uighurs began to appear in Syria at the end of 2011, and their organization was not announced until the beginning of 2014. Their entry into Syria coincided with the announcement of Jabhat al-Nusra in Syria. This gang received support from Turkey and Qatar, Abu Rabah a member of Jabhat al-Nusra , who was wounded in the battles in Syria and settled in Turkey, helped the establishment of their first camp in Syria and the launch of a website "jihad" in Turkish, based in Turkey, to recruit Uighurs and bring them to Syria.

The Turkish support for the Turkistan Islamic Party, which was officially announced in late 2014, guaranteed passports, accommodation and tickets for the Uighurs to transport them to Turkey and from there they were assembled in houses opened for this purpose by the Turkish authorities and later, they were transferred to Syria.

IS mercenaries

Since the beginning of IS mercenaries emergence in the spring of 2013, Turkey sought to cooperate with them, and the volume of cooperation after the occupation of IS to Mosul and the arrest of 49 officials in the Turkish consulate in Mosul, as it delivered the Turkish officials to the authorities of their country at Girê Spî crossing / Tal Abyad without harming them , and therefore it received unlimited military support from Turkey, IS was selling oil looted from Syria and Iraq to Turkey.

The evidence of Turkey's support for armed gangs in Syria is the United Nations' signal at the end of 2013 that Turkey sent about 47 tons of arms to Syria. At the time, then-Turkish Defense Minister Ismat Yilmaz admitted that these weapons were light, and are for training and not fighting.

On January 19, 2014, three truckloads of weapons were stopped in Turkish territory on their way to armed gangs in Syria, thus another clear evidence appeared of Turkish support to the gangs in Syria, and this way Erdogan went crazy and said that the secrets of the state were revealed and began to prosecute those who revealed the weapons, because he was sending weapons under the name of food aid to the Syrian people, but in fact they were arms shipments.

Formation of the Syrian National Council and later "The coalition"

With the start of the formation of armed gangs, the Turkish authorities wanted to put their hand on the Syrian revolution to achieve its goals and ambitions in Syria, so supported the idea of establishing the so-called "Syrian National Council" of the Muslim Brotherhood, and after several meetings on Turkish territory. In October 2011, the formation of this Council was announced. To achieve a greater impact, Turkey and the Muslim Brotherhood were keen to involve some of the personalities in its establishment.

The Council, which was formed by Turkey, did not achieve Turkish ambition, so the work on forming another council was also taken over by the Muslim Brotherhood. On November 2, 2012, the so-called "National Coalition for Revolutionary Forces and Syrian Opposition" Turkey soon recognized it as the "sole legitimate representative of the Syrian people."

Formation of the so-called Jaish al-Fateh and the occupation of Idlib

Since the Turkish intervention in the crisis and the formation of armed gangs of different denominations, these gangs were directed towards the Kurdish areas. These attacks began in October 2012 when their mercenaries attacked Qestal Jendu village in Afrin. A few days later, Turkey entered its mercenaries through Serê Kaniyê (Jilan Benar)to attack Serê Kaniyê in an attempt to occupy Kurdish areas in Syria, but the resistance demonstrated by the Kurdish people thwarted the Turkish schemes.

The ideological rapprochement between Erdogan and the Muslim Brotherhood made Erdogan think of direct intervention in Syria. Turkish forces entered Syria on February 2, 2015, and established the so-called Jaish al-Fateh with Qatari cooperation and a Turkish military intelligence service operating in Kilis border city.

This terrorist gang, known as the "Jaish al-Fateh", was formed on March 24, 2015, from a number of terrorist gangs, most notably Jabhat al-Nasra, Ahrar al-Sham, Jund al-Aqsa, Fileq al-Sham, and Ajnad al-Sham

On  May 28, 2015, Jaish al-Fateh took control of of Idlib city. Turkey considered it a "popular victory" and wanted to control Hama city and later Aleppo city to expand the areas under its occupation.

Russian intervention, revolution liquidated

Russian intervention in Syria began after the Russian air force launched air strikes on September 30, 2015, following the request of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for military support from Moscow. Armed gangs controlled large areas, while IS controlled more than 40 % of Syria's area, and only some areas remained under the control of the regime.

Erdogan, who announced on August31 - 2013 that there is a need for international military intervention against the Syrian regime is long-term, all his plans turned upside down, after the Russian intervention, all his goals in the occupation of Syria through terrorist gangs thwarted.

The situation worsened after the Turkish forces dropped a Russian military aircraft on November 24, 2015, under the pretext of penetrating Turkish airspace. Turkey could no longer intervene directly in Syria, so it had to agree with Russia, therefore, the Turkish presidency sent a letter of apology to the Kazakh ambassador to Turkey, Jansit Tuimbayev, on June 24, 2016, which played a major role in persuading the Turkish presidency by writing a letter containing an apology to Russia, and the ambassador handed the message in turn to Russian President Vladimir Putin who was in the Uzbek capital of Tashkent on the sidelines of the meeting of the Shanghai Organization.

A few days later, Erdogan met Putin in St. Petersburg, on  August 9-2016. From there, the agreements began to eliminate armed gangs and mercenaries supported by Turkey. Russia allowed Turkey to intervene directly and occupy Jarablos and al-Bab on  August 24-2016. Turkey withdrew its mercenaries as well as Jabhat al-Nusra from Aleppo, thus Aleppo city on 21 December 2016 became under the control of the regime.

Erdogan's abdication of Aleppo city, which is of particular importance to him, because he sees it as an Ottoman state, and since 2012  he sent his terrorist gangs from the countryside to the city to fight the regime and to control the city, which represents the Sunni economic weight of the economic-industrial in Syria with her sister Damascus.

In fact, Turkey, which opened its borders to bring in all those who wanted to join the terrorists, failed to save itself and its terrorists together after the Russian intervention, so it chose to save itself. The announcement by Russian President Vladimir Putin from Japan at the end of 2016 that he agreed with Erdogan on peace talks and said that they agreed to continue talks in the Kazakh capital Astana, confirming the Turkish pursuit to save itself after it directed the Syrian revolution towards militarization.

On January 23, 2017, the first meetings of Astana, between the countries intervening in Syria and the occupied territories (Turkey, Russia and Iran) began. These parties agreed on the so-called reduction zones, thus undermining the Russian and Iranian intervention in the Syrian situation, and the Turkish occupation of Syria's lands.

Russia used this agreement to eliminate the Turkish-backed armed and terrorist gangs fighting the regime. It singled out areas to reduce the escalation one by one through agreements with Turkey by transferring militants and terrorists to Idlib. Thus, Russia restored control of the regime to all areas. Idlib remained under control Turkish terrorists, and now talk about an agreement between Turkey and Russia is circulated including the establishment of a demilitarized zone with a depth of 15-20 km.

Seven years after the start of the Syrian revolution and its transformation into the crisis, there was only a revolution in the Syrian north, and the rest of the regions returned to the control of the regime forces except for Idlib, which Jabhat al-Nusra controls 60% of its area. Talk about disarming the Turkish mercenaries in preparation for handing it over to the regime Syrian conflict.

Dirty agreements aimed at the Kurdish presence in Syria

Turkey, which sees its existence through the annihilation of the Kurdish people, has tried to exploit its agreements with Russia and Iran to eliminate the Kurdish people who took the leadership of the revolution in the north of Syria and worked with the rest of the peoples of north and east Syria to establish a system of Autonomous Administration. This is why Erdogan, after withdrawing his mercenaries from the eastern Ghouta to Idlib, took the green light from Russia to launch the aggression on Afrin on 20 January 2018 and occupy it after following the policy of the scorched earth against the Kurdish people amid international silence confirming its collusion with Turkey which used NATO weapons In this aggression.

Turkey, which intervened in the Syrian crisis since its beginnings, had different positions and roles. The fluctuations in the Turkish position on Syria are difficult to understand in one logical context except anti-Kurds and the willingness to do and give up everything to eliminate the Kurds or any project they participate in, any project they participate in determines the future of Syria.

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