Turkish threats an escape policy following meetings without results: Idlib Council
RAQQA, Syria (North Press) – Turkish threats to launch a military operation against the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) is the only option for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to escape, after his meetings with the Russian and American presidents ended with no results, an official in the Green Idlib Council said on Sunday.
Ahmed Shawa, a relations official in the Green Idlib Council, said Erdogan’s marginal meetings with Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin, which were without results, “made him threaten to launch a military operation targeting areas in northern Syria.”
“The economic situation associated with the collapse of the Turkish lira, the political tension, external conflicts with neighboring countries, and the expulsion of European ambassadors, have increased Erdogan’s intransigence,” he added.
The pro-Autonomous Administration Green Idlib Council is an administrative center established in July 2019. Its main office is in Raqqa and it runs the affairs of the people of Idlib who displaced to other areas within the AANES-led areas.
“The Turkish president is looking for a lifeline after a series of successive failures of his hostile policies in the Kurdistan region of Iraq, Libya and the eastern Mediterranean,” Shawa told North Press.
He pointed out that the military build-up sent by Turkish forces, Syrian National Army (SNA) factions, and heavy mechanisms on the borders of the northern regions of the Autonomous Administration, “is the only destination for the Turkish president’s escape policy after the regional horizon in the Middle East is blocked.”
Regarding the dialogue with the Syrian government, Shawa said, the statements and positions issued by northeastern Syria are “clear and frank, and take place under the umbrella of the UN Resolution 2254 for a comprehensive and sustainable political solution in Syria.”
Shawa stated that the dialogue mechanism between the Syrian parties is the demand of every real Syrian, and is not dependent on any regional or international party.
“Dialogue is one of the most important factors for a real political solution that will bring Syria out of its crisis that spanned over the past ten years,” the Green Idlib Council official concluded.