​​​​​​​Firas Qassas: All Syrians must defend AANES’ experience

Turkish occupation state continues to threaten to launch new attacks on north and east Syria, in conjunction with attacks and targeting on the ground.

These threats received condemning reactions, from Syrian and Arab politicians, writers, and personalities, who warned that the Turkish occupation is carrying out a policy of gradual annexation of the Syrian regions.

The Syrian opponent and head of the Modernity and Democracy Party for Syria, Firas Qassas, spoke to ANHA’s agency about this, saying: "Turkish threats at this stage appear to be an expression of the madness the Turkish aggression towards the administration areas, which finds the sharp polarization of the international system against the background of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. An opportunity to start the war on the Autonomous Administration community and undermine its participatory democratic project."

He added, "Erdogan, filled with hostility to feelings of liberation, dignity, and equality between the ethnic, religious and sectarian components in Syria and Turkey, is trying to find in the signs of a turning point in international relations an area on which to blackmail the Russian Federation, the United States and NATO, through which he achieves criminal gains in our regions that he presents and flirts with. The racist, Turanian nationalist instincts of large sectors of Turkish society, thus covering up its comprehensive internal failure, which brought the Turkish lira, inflation, and the general Turkish economy to an unprecedented degree of deterioration.”

Regarding the goals of the Turkish occupation of these threats, Qassas said: "It is to achieve what will turn it into a war and destructive reality from which Erdogan will benefit in the upcoming election battle, and will guarantee him the expansion of his hegemony to the farthest possible area in Syria and outside Turkey. It has been proven that Erdogan has nothing but constants. His interest and the interest of his staying in power, while working for it, employs racist and arrogant attitudes and feelings that make up his political personality and nothing further.

The Syrian politician, speaking about the history of the threats the President of the Turkish occupation, said: "Erdogan is a populist person with gang and reconciliation concerns of subjective and personal dimensions. The past years have shown that he is not committed to any value or position. He talked about praying in the Umayyad Mosque when he thought that the collapse of the Syrian regime would It is only a matter of time, and perhaps if this happens, he will claim that he is one of the makers of the victory over the regime, so that he will achieve from the new reality he expected in Syria interests that will benefit him in consolidating his authority and ensuring its permanence to the fullest extent.

On the threat of the Turkish occupation of Manbij and Tal Rifaat, Qassas said: "Erdogan's goals in north and east Syria do not stop at Manbij and Tal Rifaat. Erdogan is a person He has an aggressive imperialist tendency, and his ambitions have no limits, especially in Syria.

The Syrian politician touched on the conversations about understandings between the Damascus government and the Autonomous Administration, saying: We are with any steps and agreements that stop the Turkish aggression, preserve the Autonomous Administration’s experience, preserve its society, and preserve its right to democracy and to express its interests and will. These two factors are the main and essential determinants that frame any agreement with Either party."

He added, "What I hope is that the regime will believe in its pledges to defend the borders and not violate its obligations and commitments in the event of any developments in this regard. What I trust is the commitment of the Autonomous Administration institutions to defend their experience, their society and its components, as red lines that can never be violated."

On this, Firas Qassas said: "The declaration of a state of emergency by the AANES’ institutions are a political, legal and practical expression of the administration's society, with its political and institutional expressions, entering a stage in which it is ready to repel the Turkish attack, resist the aggression of the Turkish state, and interact with the requirements of defending the experience and the future of the components of the administration." Democratic Autonomous Administration DAA regions.

He added, "The Syrians in the Autonomous Administration areas are required to stand united behind the Syrian Democratic Forces and to defend the Autonomous Administration's experience by all available means, whether by engaging in legitimate self-defense efforts or by expressing rejection and civil resistance by resorting to means of comprehensive civil protest in rejection of the aggression." The Turkish criminal, and what is required of the Syrians in the rest of Syria is to reject the aggression and criminalize the agents who fight and stand by the Turkish aggression and to support the resistance of the Turkish war machine by all possible means.

The head of the Modernity and Democracy Party for Syria, Firas Qassas, concluded his speech, saying: "The Turkish war on north and east Syria is a war on the future of Syria's democratic pluralism, a war on the will of the Syrians to live together and weave together a history of dignity and a consistent, rich base for the Syrian identity based on pluralism and the values ​​of coexistence.

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ANHA