Erdogan’s government has been one of the main supporters of the Syrian opposition since the early days of the civil war in 2011
The Syrian rebels’ plans were reported 6 months ago to the Turkish government. The information is from agency sources Reuters.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been since the early days of the civil war in 2011.
Turkey has troops in northwest Syria and offers support to some Syrian rebel groups, especially the ENS (Syrian National Army).
However, classified as a terrorist organization by Turkey due to Ahmed al-Sharaa’s previous ties to Al-Qaeda, responsible for the September 11 attacks in the United States and several others in the Middle East.
Erdogan has always opposed an offensive of this level, fearing it would generate a new wave of border crossings. In 2020, Turkey signed an agreement with Assad’s ally Russia to de-escalate fighting in northwestern Syria.
However, sources reported that the rebels noticed a change in Erdogan’s stance towards Assad earlier this year, with differences between the two over a political solution to the civil war.
According to the sources, the Turkish government was told that “this path didn’t work for years”that the ideal solution would be the armed seizure of power and that Turkey did not need to do anything other than not intervene in the situation.
This morning, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said that Erdogan’s effort in recent months to get closer to Assad had failed and that the Turkish government “I knew something was coming”.
