On the role of HTS and its relations with the US and Türkiye. Ali Erdem Köz from Türkiye’s daily Aydınlık daily newspaper conducted a very comprehensive interview with a former Syrian National Army (SNA) commander in Syria. The interview provides many insights on highly controversial topics of rapidly evolving developments in Syria. We present the full interview translating into English. ...
Ankara still believes that the only way to solve the problems is to work together with the countries in the region. Following the overthrow of the Baath government in Syria, Türkiye is somehow at the center of the new emerging structure. But exactly how? What are the new positive and negative possibilities opening up before Türkiye? We asked Yakup Aslan, ...
With Syria’s state and constitution, a broader idea is being eliminated furthermore. By Yunus Soner I travelled several times to the Arab Republic of Syria during the war. To check out Western propaganda that Syria was a sectarian dictatorship, I used to ask people, both in political meetings as well as on the streets, to which religious group they belonged. ...
Main political event in Türkiye in the last week were reactions and debates in regard to Syria. Last week in Türkiye, as in the rest of the world, the spotlight was on Syria. The Syrian President Bashar al-Assad fled the country and sought refuge in Russia following the fall of Aleppo and Damascus with the offensive launched on November 27 ...
Future order of Syria and beyond. By Yunus Soner Recently, the Pentagon has announced that US military presence in Syria was not consisting of 900 soldiers, as they have repeatedly declared, but of 2000 soldiers. These forces are stationed in the East of the Euphrates, together and actually safeguarding, forces of the PKK and the Syrian Democratic Forces. We spoke ...
Interview to Russia Today France on recent events in Syria. UWI author political scientist Onur Sinan Güzaltan was guest to Russia Today France. Güzaltan answered the question on the recent developments in Syria. Mr. Güzaltan, good evening. Currently, there are numerous forces present in Syria. I would like to begin directly by discussing their relations with Türkiye. According to the ...
Turkish elite must refrain from a discourse of Neo-Ottomanism. By Mohamed Sabreen, Cairo / Egypt The fall of the Assad family regime was inevitable, and perhaps the most eloquent thing that was said about it by the Syrians is that the roots of the regime collapsed a long time ago due to tyranny, sectarianism, corruption, and betting on others to ...
Israel is also preparing to become the protector of the PKK and its extensions in Syria. By Adem Kılıç, Political scientist The Golan Heights, occupied by Israel in Syria, is a critical region located between the Yarmouk River and the Sea of Galilee, about 60 kilometers from Damascus. The region was the decisive battleground in the 1967 Six-Day War and ...
First statement of Assad after moving to Moscow. The President of the Syrian Arab Republic, Bashar al-Assad made a first declaration after the conquest of Damascus and his moving to Moscow, Russia. The statement was published on his official telegram channel in English. UWI documents below the statement as published. Moscow – 16 December 2024 As terrorism spread across Syria ...
How both try to advance their joint project of a so called Kurdistan Concurrent with HTS’s takeover of Damascus and the fall of Bashar al-Assad, Israel began to expand its occupation into Syria from the Golan Heights, moving Deeper into the country. Simultaneously, PKK/YPG is also expanding its area of control, moving closer to Israel. Israel and PKK/YPG’s moves taken ...