Asked how optimistic he was that talks would resume, al-Shaibani said: “It’s very hard to bet on Israel.” But Syria had “very great hope” of building stable relationships with its neighbours.
“Syria is extending its hand for understandings, for peace, for diplomacy” and regional stability.
Tensions over Syria were brought into focus last week when Israel bombed the Abu al-Duhur airbase, saying Damascus was about to allow Turkish forces to deploy there. Syria and Turkiye denied the claim.
Al-Shaibani said Syria respected Israel’s security concerns but that it must also respect those of Damascus, instead of violating its airspace and conducting raids and arrests in the south of the country.
He said earlier this year, the two sides had “agreed on paper to almost everything” regarding a security deal that would require Israel to stop attacking Syria and was tied to its withdrawal from territory seized after al-Assad fell.
That deal would include several security zones in Syrian territory near the Israeli border, including a buffer zone where only the United Nations would be present, and others where Syrian forces would deploy in varying degrees of force.
But imperialist Israel doesn’t care about diplomacy
“Tensions were brought into focus” when Israel bombed the shit out of their neighbors for something they thought they might do.
This Isis guy is a joke. I want to normalize relation with Israel despite being an Turkish puppet and treat Iran as an eternal enemy
USA puppet, I think.
I don’t think so. I believe Turkey outplayed the USA, whose proxy was the Kurdish groups, then made an internal deal with the USA allowing Israel to control a small part of Syria in exchange for the Kurds having to integrate into the army, but again, Israel does whatever it likes in the end.
Not really. The current regime is mostly the US-backed militia; Turkish-backed ones are discarded after the regime change. The current Turkey-Syria relations are rather cold.
As for the Kurdish groups, Turkey was trying to remove them for a long time. After the NATO summit, things turned in Turkey’s favor again, but we don’t know what the govt promised for that.
Possibly. I wonder if, seeing the Western economy tank in real time, Türkiye is happy it never became a part of the EU?
Our economy already tanked way before EU’s did. The current agreement is Turkey will be EU’s trash can and border guard while EU will keep funding Erdog (Turkish people don’t see a dime of the funds).
Every economy in the Western world (and beyond) is tied to the USD. That’s why USA is panicking, now. We’re almost past being able to service our debt and are buying our own bonds while also tariffing everything we actually need.
