Get Real! wrote:Maximus wrote:Get Real! wrote:
The Jihadists’ reckless sectarian behavior suggests that Turkey does not control or even guide them!
All based on the assumption that Turkey occupies swathes of Syria to ensure their sovereign integrity, peace and stability and is not there to purposefully destabilize it to achieve ulterior motives of course.
We’re past the destabilization stage of Syria; official Syrian government long ousted and sectarian strife established.
The important thing now is what comes
post-destabilization… and Israel has already indicated its intentions, but Turkey remains a mystery.
If Erdogan had a plan I don’t see it materializing... he clearly doesn’t have control of al-Sharaa.
Erdogans Turkey was a central force in the ousting of the Assad regime. Turkey mobilized military, financial, logistical and diplomatic support for the opposition groups, including ISIS, which enabled their offensives to overthrow the government. Many political analysts and country leaders, including the US and some Arab states, have acknowledged that the fall of the Assad regime would likely have been impossible without Turkish backing. Even Assad himself in his final days, was complaining to Iranian officials about Turkey’s support for the rebel coalitions trying to topple him.
Now, that is only part of the plan because Erdogan fell out with him over some gas pipelines that he wanted to run through Turkey. But, If you are paying attention to recent events, the other part of the plan was to block the Kurds from establishing autonomous regions in northern Syria and in Turkeys' south east by occupying swatches of Syrian land, then engage in a bit of demographic re-engineering. Such as, moving Syrian refugees in Turkey to the those areas.
So I argue that the Turkish plan is in maintaining sufficient destabilization in Syria to justify and sustain its control over significant territories it currently occupies and potentially expand further (The Israeli encroachment?). Turkey supports and arms a range of Syrian proxy groups, including jihadist factions and foreign mercenaries, with some being accused of human rights abuses and ethnic cleansing.
Turkey is using these Jihadists and is seeking to erect Sunni Islamist puppet zones in Syria under its influence, to project her neo-Ottoman ambitions. Where have we seen this before? northern occupied Cyprus perhaps?
Thats why I say, think three times before supporting Turkey. Whatever you accuse Israel of, Turkey has done or is also doing it and probably on a much larger scale. The Syrian civil war cost half a million lives (not 50K) and millions more refugees.
Your support for Turkey might end up becoming the Cypriot encroachment, not the Israeli one.