Qassas: contrary forces turned the revolution into bloody events, the solution is Autonomous Administration

The head of the Modernity and Democracy Party in Syria, Firas Qassas, conducted an interview with ANHA on the occasion of the Syrian crisis's anniversary which falls on the 15th of this March.

The text of the dialogue read :

The Syrian crisis is its eleventh year, how do you assess its course so far in brief?

Its path was complex and bumpy, it started as a peaceful and civil one demanding freedom, due to the regime’s violence and failure of the opposition forces it turned into a set of events and phenomena that produced death, arrest, devastation, displacement, asylum, economic reaction and generalized blockage, behind them are forces, most of which appear to be contradictory in terms of form and positioning towards the goal, but they agree in substance and content to their tendency in hegemony, tyranny and oppression, with the exception of the Autonomous Administration areas that launched a new liberating value, social and political project.

During the Syrian crisis, many countries intervened.. How do you evaluate this? How did this affect the course of the revolution?

There was hope among the Syrians at the beginning of their revolution related to a Turkish role in supporting the revolution, which was still on the verge of dialogue with the Ocalan freedom movement, but it became clear that Turkey seeks to dominate and establish a model similar to the political Islam forces

Instead of supporting the Syrian people to liberate Damascus, Aleppo, and the rebellious Syrian cities, it took upon itself fighting Syrian's will in its socio-political project in Autonomous Administration areas to destroy what the Syrians have achieved from the various components, thus it and the defeated forces started a policy of occupation and cultural replacement in the cities of Afrin and Tel Abyad / Gire Spi and Sere-Kaniye / Ras al-Ain.

In sum, the Turkish intervention was disastrous, neurotic, obsessed with its interests and its will, in recent years it only wanted to undermine what the Syrians had achieved in their revolution in the areas of the Democratic Autonomous Administration

About the external interference, especially Turkey, we witnessed that the radical current swallowed up the revolutionary current. Was this on purpose? And what are the goals?

After what the Syrian had learned from the Turkish role, where it realized that entering takfiris into Syria through Turkey's borders was not just complicity; Rather, it is a direct and intentional expression of a hegemonic policy that wants to direct the Syrian event in accordance with its government’s ideological and political goals, such as supporting of Nusra and Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham in Idlib and Its refusal to dismantle it despite its agreement with the Russian side in Astana on that.

That, in my estimation and appreciation of every observer and expert in the Syrian affairs, Turkey deliberately supported religious terrorism in Syria and dragged the country towards its compass and interests.

During the years of the crisis, we witnessed many meetings related to the Syrian crisis, "Geneva, the Constitutional Committee, and the Astana meetings." how do you evaluate the basis of these tracks? Why did it fail ?

In my estimation, launching these tracks initially represented an attempt to draw general lines for the international approach to resolve the Syrian crisis following the revolution, but the challenges actually lay in the details and mechanisms,

The Turkish side wanted to pass its vision and goals through the opposition that sponsored it, also ignored representatives of the Autonomous Administration from attending any international activity, as well as the Russians and Iranians always trying to pass the agendas that belong to them and their local agents.

A.K

ANHA