Arab press: Israeli raid is message to Iran in Syria, Erdogan's policies deepen Turkey's crisis

On Thursday, the Arab newspapers discussed the recent Israeli bombing of Damascus, in addition to the internal Turkish situation, and the Libyan crisis.

"The Israeli bombing is a message to public opinion after defeating Trump"

Al-Sharq al-Awsat focused on the Syrian file saying" the toll death due to Israeli raids in Syria, at dawn Wednesday, increased to 10 among them 3 Syrian officers of Air Defense Forces and others belong to foreign nationalities, according to SOHR."

"And while it was reported in Tel Aviv that the raids deliberately did not hit Iranian officials, observers saw that the bombing is an indication that Israel will continue its policy of cross-border strikes despite the defeat of US President Donald Trump in the elections."

According to the observatory, among the dead five "are likely to be of Iranian nationalities belonging to the Quds Force," in addition to two fighters whose nationalities are not known yet, and it is likely that they were Shiite fighters from Lebanon or Iraq. A commander from a coalition of regional forces supporting Damascus denied being among them. The dead are Iranian or Lebanese. "

A Reuters analysis pointed out that Wednesday's attack hit a much wider range of targets than usual, and the Israeli army seemed more eager to announce the details than it had been in previous times, indicating a clear intention to send a message to the public opinion about the Iranian intervention in Syria.

And in Tel Aviv, a senior Israeli military source confirmed, Wednesday, that the raids carried out by his warplanes in eight locations in Syria, last night, deliberately did not hit any of the senior Iranian leaders in their own neighborhood near Damascus, and that they were content with throwing some missiles Light near their homes, to warn them of the consequences of continuing to implement their project to position in the country in general and in southern Syria, close to the line of separation of forces with Israel in particular.

'Erdogan's mistakes have deepened the problems of the Turkish economy'

Regarding the Turkish issue, Al-Arab newspaper said: “Experts’ analyzes confirm that the policy of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has deepened the problems of the Turkish economy and revealed the government's failure to manage the economic crisis, which was clear by high interest rates and the collapse of the lira, as well as the depletion of liquidity in support of loyalists to the ruling party.

And added, "The administration of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan presents his country's economy with contradictions about the way he manages financial institutions, as he claims that high interest rates were inflationary and that foreign financiers and their local allies use them to control his government and the wealth of his people, while his new moves show the opposite."

Erdogan criticized the high interest rates a day before the central bank held its first monetary policy meeting under the management of a new bank governor who is expected to restore monetary controls.

Erdogan's comments came as analysts explored their views by Bloomberg News expected that the monetary policy committee of the central bank will raise the interest rate Thursday, which represents a change in the era of Naji Iqbal, who was appointed on the seventh of November after his predecessor depleted Turkey's foreign currency reserves in an attempt to strengthen the currency. Collapsed.

In July 2018, several prominent figures in his party were shocked by the deportation of Mohammed Imşek, an economist at Merrill Lynch Investment who helped oversee the Turkish economy for nine years, in favor of his inexperienced son-in-law, Berat Albayrak, who took the leadership role of the Treasury and Finance Ministry.

Stock prices and the lira fell sharply, and Erdogan worked diligently to transform Turkey into a regional power, as he intervened in Syria and Libya and sent exploration ships to the Mediterranean to challenge the sovereign rights of neighboring Greece, then bought Russian-made S-400 missiles in defiance of the United States.

With Albayrak in London, Erdogan appointed Lotfi Alwan, a party loyal to the party and a former deputy prime minister, to replace him. Alwan expressed surprise at his obtaining the job, saying he was not expecting it, and in the meantime, reports began circulating in the media that Erdogan sacked Uesal after discovering that the central bank had exhausted most of Turkey's foreign currency reserves.

The president appears to be shocked by the lack of cash remaining for the bank, despite coverage by foreign media and the opposition press.

'Egyptian efforts to unify the Libyan parliament after the failure of the Tunis talks'

In Libya, Al-Bayan newspaper said: “Cairo is heading to hold a consultative meeting to unify the Libyan Parliament and avoid cracks within it that led to its division and inability to play its role during this important stage of the country's history.

The head of the Egyptian parliament called Ph.D. Ali Abdel-Al, his Libyan counterpart, Counselor Aguila Saleh, to a consultative meeting in Cairo; To heal the rift between the members of the Libyan House of Representatives, and to agree on a number of principles and standards required for a political solution to the current Libyan crisis.

In a speech addressed to Saleh, Abdel-Al called on all the deputies under the banner of the House of Representatives to come to Cairo and meet under the dome of the Egyptian Parliament through their official institutions next Tuesday, to put solution for the Libyan crisis without interference or influence from anyone, and to complete the Cairo meetings with the members of the Parliament, to discuss the Libyan crisis and reach the desired stability, affirming that his country stands with the Libyans in order to overcome their ordeal and achieve their aspirations towards a civil state

This initiative came after foiling Tunis forum to reach who will rule the country during transitional stage before elections that is supposed to be held on 24 Dec 2021, while observers see that the situation in the country is going through on a verge of the collapse due to insistence the Brotherhood and its loyalists to rule the next stage who support Erdogan's policy.

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ANHA