According to the statements of its leaders, the oppositional alliance, the ‘Table of Six’, proposes the following policy regarding Syria: The Turkish Army will withdraw from Syrian territory. Türkiye will reach an agreement with the Syrian government. Syrians in Türkiye will be sent back to Syria. Ambassadors will be appointed reciprocally. It is innocence at the first sight. But there ...
By Bessam Abu Abdullah * The presidential and parliamentary elections in Türkiye also concern the unity and sovereignty of Syria, the laws regulating the marriage, family and property laws of the Islamic, Messianic, Jewish and Druze communities, and the future of the secular and unitary state structure. They are also about whether the ethnic and sectarian separatist goals of the ...
By Prof. Mehmet Yuva * On December 22, 2022, at Putin’s invitation and forced by circumstances, the Defense Ministers and Intelligence Chiefs of Türkiye and Syria met in Moscow. Following this, it was expected that the foreign ministers of the two countries would meet in mid-February and that after the Assad-Erdoğan summit, the two countries’ political relations would move towards ...
The earthquake of February 6 did not care about borders and shook Türkiye and Syria similarly. But the two countries presented a quite different capacity to respond the disaster. We spoke with Firas Alshoufi, Journalist in the Syrian daily newspaper Al Akhbar on the reasons for that difference, the current situation in Syria and political opportunities in relations between Damascus ...
The country was hit with two very severe earthquakes last week. Therefore it was a very rough week for the Turkish public. The only agenda among the public was around the earthquake, its consequences and outcomes. Devastating earthquakes that hit southeastern Türkiye On February 6th, two catastrophic earthquakes struck southern and central Türkiye, as well as northern and western Syria. ...
Mehmet Yuva, head of the Türkiye-Syria Friendship Movement, is in the region hit by the earthquake to help people in need. He shared his observations and views with us during his heavy schedule in these difficult times. We thank him wholeheartedly. Yuva proposes a three-pronged road map for the aftermath of the earthquake that hit Syria and Türkiye at the ...
To the global public opinion One week has passed since the earthquake catastrophe that Türkiye and Syria have gone through. Experts say that this catastrophe was not only the biggest one in the last 100 years but one of the biggest in the last millennium. The last week has displayed how Türkiye, with its nation, state and armed forces has ...
There is a difference between the borders on the world’s surface and those below it. That difference may sometimes decide on the matter of life and death. The most recent earthquake in southern Türkiye and northern Syria is demonstrating this. Below the surface, the earth’s different plates comprise the natural borders. According to experts, the earthquake was caused by the ...
It seems that difficult mediation roles are becoming attractive to the Gulf countries. Two months ago, Qatar succeeded in resolving the stalemate in relations between Türkiye and Egypt by arranging the impossible handshake between President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his counterpart Abdel Fattah El-Sisi prior to the opening of the World Cup finals held on its soil. This constituted a ...
By Nahed al Huseini reporting from Damascus / Syria The year 2023 began with an important diplomatic turn. After 11 years of interrupted diplomatic relations, defense ministers of Türkiye and Syria came together in a trilateral meeting in Moscow. Speaking to United World International, Syrian Member of Parliament, Dr. Nabil Toumeh said if conducted with “mutual understanding and respect, these ...