The Kremlin has announced that it supports establishing relations between President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Syrian President Bashar Assad. It was reported that Russia wants to improve relations between the two countries.
PKK’s Concern: I Hope There Will Be No Rapprochement
The leader of the terrorist organization PKK, Mustafa Karasu, made the following statements regarding the rapprochement between Turkey and Syria:
- “Now why is Erdoğan doing this? Let me meet with Assad, let me crush the Kurds, let me eliminate the Kurds together with Assad. This is his plan, this is his main goal. What will Bashar Assad gain by showing hostility towards the Kurds? He will lose. When the Syrian state shows hostility towards the Kurds, it means it has lost. When it shows hostility towards the Kurds, that is how he reaches his goal. through war. In this respect, I do not think that the Assad-Erdogan meeting will be concluded immediately or that Assad will reach an agreement with Turkey on the basis of his hostility towards the Kurds. dog.”