Syria crisis due to Assad’s refusal to engage with opposition, says Turkish minister

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The crisis in Syria is the result of President Bashar al-Assad’s refusal to engage in political dialogue with the opposition, and not external interventions, the Turkish foreign minister, Hakan Fidan, said after meeting his Iranian counterpart, Abbas Araghchi, for emergency talks in Ankara.

Araghchi, by contrast, blamed intervention by Israel for the crisis. But the two sides appeared to agree on the need to convene an urgent summit between Turkey, Iran and Russia, the three main external powers inside Syria.

www.theguardian.com

Syria crisis due to Assad’s refusal to engage with opposition, says Turkish minister

Iran’s foreign minister blamed Israel’s intervention instead, but emergency talks in Ankara said to be ‘constructive’
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Problem is that Assad is a brutal dictator.
 
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Brian Berletic

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There are a lot of theories regarding US-NATO-Turkiye's terrorist offensive against Syria. Plain and simple, Russia/Iran/Syria/Hezbollah/China are not all powerful. The US and its obedient proxies sensed and exploited weakness with actions that will impact all of the above. Despite appearances, Turkiye is still very much a committed NATO proxy, spending decades committed to covert NATO terrorism around the globe, only taking advantage of the benefits of multipolarism without ever genuinely investing in it - and will continue doing so until left with no other option but to genuinely invest.It isn't even about Turkiye's objective best interests or the specific government in power now - just like with the US, this self-destructive unsustainable policy is deeply institutionalized. This terror offensive is a reminder of how precarious real change is, how high the stakes are, and how dangerous complacency and misplaced trust can be. The treacherous will never be convinced to be honorable. They will merely appear honorable and only when given no other choice. Creating the conditions in the Middle East constraining US-NATO aggression and leaving only constructive cooperation an option must be a top priority. International relations should be treated as a game of chess, expecting no good will of your opponent, and setting the board up to constrain their moves in such a way as to achieve success. Give them an opportunity to gain advantage over you and they will. Israel, Turkiye, even Saudi Arabia and other decades-long US proxies cannot and should not be trusted (institutionalized obedience), and while constructively engaged with, relations must be proofed against inevitable self-serving short-sighted treachery......or, prepare to suffer the consequences.
 
My grapevine is of the opinion that Turkey betraying Iran, Russia and China was a desperate idiotic move that greatly harms Turkey.
 
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