Normalization does not mean Turkey no longer occupier – Raqqa politicians
RAQQA, Syria (North Press) – Politicians in the city of Raqqa in northern Syria said on Monday that normalization between Syria and Turkey does not mean that Turkey is no longer an occupation state.
Abdurrahman al-Issa, Deputy Secretary-General of the Kurdistan Republican Party said rapprochement between Syrian government and Turkey targets “far and foremost the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES)” and will not serve Syrians.
“The failure of Turkish government to receive the green light for a military operation into northern Syria pushes it to approach Damascus for an understanding to escalate against the AANES,” Al-Issa told North Press.
“Any normalization between Syria and Turkey will lead to more displacements and occupying more territories in addition to enhancing its military presence in Syria.”
Al-Issa pointed out that Turkey, under the pretext of protecting its national security, escalates against northeast Syria, “so such rapprochement is not strange to increase escalation in the region.”
In turn, Ismail Muhammad, head of Raqqa Branch of the Syrian Building and Development Party said that most Syrians consider Turkey an “occupation state” and normalizing ties with it “opposes it.”
Muhammad indicated that Turkey is an “occupying” state in Syria that committed breaches against Syrians on their lands, made demographic change and displaced people.
He told North Press, “Turkey backs factions of the Syrian opposition known as terrorists after the war crimes it committed in Syria in the course of the last years.”
The politician added that any formal Syrian-Turkish rapprochement would reduce the aspirations of the Syrian people in building a “democratic, pluralistic and decentralized homeland,” considering that normalization should follow the Turkish withdrawal from the Syrian geography as a whole and to lift the Turkish trusteeship from opposition factions.