Unsurmountable issues - common denominators between Damascus Government and Turkey

Two researchers spoke to ANHA’s agency about the prospects of reconciliation between the Government of Damascus and the Turkish occupying state, and ruled out a reconciliation soon between two regimes with conflicting interests, although based on a common denominator based on the rejection of any democratic project as an alternative to the central national state.

Unsurmountable issues - common denominators between Damascus Government and Turkey
6 September, 2022   02:43
NEWS DESK, AHMED SAMIR

After Tehran's meeting on July 19th, which brought together the presidents of Russia, Iran and the Turkish occupying state, and the Sochi meeting that brought together Russian President Vladimir Putin with his counterpart in the Turkish occupying state Recep Tayyip Erdogan, statements were made by the Turkish side of a possible reconciliation with the Damascus Government.

For their part, the officials of the Government of Damascus insisted on numerous conditions for reconciliation with the Turkish occupying state, the most important is the withdrawal of Turkish occupying forces from occupied Syrian territory and the cessation of support for mercenary groups.

The former “Adana Agreement” signed between the Government of Damascus and Ankara in 1998 is now being revised and amended to extend Ankara's dominance and occupation of Syrian territory along the border to a depth of 30 km.

North and East Syria has rejected any reconciliation with the Turkish occupying state.

Their situation will not be good if there is any convergence.

Political analyst and public relations officer at the Euphrates Research Centre Walid Joly points out that the people of the occupied areas have been affected by much of the war in Syria, particularly with the regime and internal fighting, as a result of the opposition's dependence on its decisions on Turkey.

According to Joly, the people of these areas view the status quo as a rapprochement between the Turkish and Syrian regimes whose fate will be mortal. They do not in any way accept living under the regime's authority, as before. "The opposition and armed factions control them. This does not mean that all terrorists, who live in these areas, have been controlled as a result of the fierce battles that took place in Ghouta, Homs and Idlib and have been moved from one place to another, so their situation will not be good if there is any convergence."

Turkey may sell them in any bazaar

The Chairman of the German Kurdish Forum, Yunus Bahram, says that people's demonstrations in "areas directly under the control of terrorist organizations and the support of Turkey, calculated that this day was only a matter of time and turned into ashes and blocks of fire.”

Bahram was likely that Turkey might sell these organizations in any bazaar to Russians and the regime for its interests invoking its national security, as it had sold them to the regime in Ghouta, Homs and Aleppo.

Pressure generates explosion

Bahram sees the uprisings in the occupied Syrian areas as a " pressure generates explosion", saying: "These people lack a political and military decision supported by the evil of the scourge of the occupiers, and here is the question whether the SDF can respond to the call of our people there, as it was responded to the Deir ez-Zor and Raqqa residents."

They agree that there will be no Kurd project.

Joly pointed out that during the years of crisis, the Turkish regime has dealt painful blows to the Syrian regime and the Iranian interests in the region. He explained: "The item they agree between them is that there is no Kurdish draft affecting the Central Syrian Constitution. As long as the Kurds run this project, the three parties agree to destroy it. This is a historic item; it was not new.”

"In the 1920s, when Turkey began setting its state borders, its discussions and agreements with its neighbours for joint border protection to quell any Kurdish disobedience developing within the borders of any state (Syria Iraq Iran Turkey)," Joly stated.

Russia's primary goal is the return of central Syria

Joly stated that Russia is a sponsor of this issue and its primary objective is the return of centralization to Syria to protect Russian interests in the region. He said: "It is not in Russia's interest to have a decentralized regime in Syria. This can affect Syrian international relations in the future, especially with America. Russia is vigilant in this axis, so the interests that met in Tehran were on this basis."

Turkey's founding regime is not a genuine national system

Joly indicates who is following the situation in Turkey inevitably will expect Turkish-Syrian relations to return policy, which is a strategic policy of Turkey, always taking into account the Kurdish people, Turkey's founding system is not a genuine national system, but a system founded according to a narrow Turkish elite. They reject other nationalities and cultures and do not consider them to exist, especially Kurds, and open them to the Turkish administration or the drafting of a new constitution for Turkey.

Joly ruled out any kind of trade-off under Turkish-Syrian convergence, saying: "Russia and America control the region's airspace, what they can offer Turkey to allow airspace for UAVs."

Joly does not rule out that the Turkish regime would pull the rug from under the legs of the "opposition" in the Bab and Idlib areas and withdraw its forces from these areas.

Turkey's schemes in occupying Syria will disturb Russia

According to Joly, Turkey cannot concede its objectives "can give some promises of withdrawal from certain Syrian areas, but Turkey's plans in this area of demographic change projects and the region's milestones prove that the fate of these areas will be similar to the Sanjak of Alexandretta and then a referendum and its annexation of geopolitics.

"This will become a major problem, it is not possible for the Syrian regime to deter Turkey, it can become a problem between Turkey and Russia, there are files and papers of Turkey in the hands of Russia through which subjection Turkey," Joly said.

Ruin, death, hunger and new migration await Syrians

As to what the situation would be if any new convention occurred, Joly explains: "Pro-Turkish occupation factions benefiting from the status quo have been naturalized in Turkey, regarded as Turkish citizens and any political decision that will not affect them even if they negotiate with the Syrian regime and reach a formula, so there will be ruin, destruction, killing, hunger and new migration. The inhabitants of those areas cannot live with the agreed points."

Pressure must be put on hold to stop Turkish UAVs

Joly called on "the international community to show a united position at the level of the United Nations, America and the European Union to find a solution to the Turkish UAVs, as they have an impact on the economic, living and psychological situation and create instability in the region. This is not in the interest of America and the European Union."

He noted: "ISIS/Daesh sleeper cells are active in this area, it is not in anyone's interest, so pressure is required to stop the Turkish UAVs."

Northern Syria suffers from two occupations

Yunus Bahram stated that North-western Syria was suffering from two occupations, one by the Turkish regime as a neighbouring State and a desire to expand, and hoped later to establish the new Ottoman, so it changed the currency, language and many features of life there, adding: "Other by the Turkish-backed Islamic terrorist organizations, they confiscated the rest of the life of the local population disguised under the cloak of Syrian national opposition and religious identity, and in fact they are nothing but scum, they were formed to fight alongside Erdogan in Syria, Kurdistan, Libya, Azerbaijan and Turkey."

Desperate attempt to strike the democratic experience

As to a possible convergence between the occupation and Damascus, Yunus Bahram says: "It was only a desperate attempt by both parties to strike the democratic experience of Rojava in the service of the dictatorship of their systems and expansionist aspirations at the expense of the peoples of the region."

Their schemes won't work

Bahram asked; Will these two dictators succeed in normalizing their wishes on the Syrian scene, especially in areas out their control? He said: "I don't think there's more of a player in this geography playing a role and their weight in weighing the political and military balance there. In addition to the inconsistency of conditions between them, the regime wants Turkey's entire exit from Syrian territory. and Turkey intends to occupy the most petroleum and gas-rich areas in Syria to put its grip on Syria's economy, and here it seems at first glance that the desires between them are inconsistent ".

Turkey will give up many things in exchange for the Kurds getting nothing.

Bahram points out that Turkey may do anything and concede many things in exchange for the Kurds not getting anything, in front of the regime in Damascus he wants to buy time and exploit Turkish threats to sweep the Rojava areas to earn more Kurdish concessions in exchange for protecting Syria's external borders from the Turkish offensive. "

Their destiny is doomed.

Bahram said: "The fate of the Islamic terrorist groups is death, stressing

that Turkey would sell them as it sold them in Ghouta, Homs and Aleppo under the name of the settlement process and after the liquidation, noting: "Finally, it makes the sane think about how Erdogan could buy Qatari Arab mercenaries, to fight them and occupy Arab cities and then annex them to Turkey."

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ANHA