Ankara’s normalization with Syria aims to legitimize “occupation” – SDC
RAQQA, Syria (North Press ) – Ali Rahmoun, member of the Syrian Democratic Council (SDC) executive committee, said on Wednesday that Turkey, through normalizing ties with Syrian government, seeks to legitimize its “occupation” of northern Syria.
Rahmoun’s remarks were made during an SDC meeting held with political parties in the city of Raqqa, north Syria. The theme of the meeting was the normalization process between Ankara and Damascus and its impacts on the Syrian issue.
Rahmoun, member of the SDC Executive Committee, said, “Turkey would benefit from normalizing ties with Damascus by being able to implement its expansionist policy, the demographic change, and legitimizing its occupation of north Syria.”
Rahmoun told North Press the normalization efforts between Turkey and Syria are “not strategic, but rather technical. … They are at the expense of the Syrian people.”
Rahmoun said that the SDC knows that Turkey’s aim “is implementing its expansionist policy and its demographic engineering project in the region.”
The interests of both governments converge in wanting to strike at the Autonomous Administration of North and EST Syria (AANES) as it is the best alternative to the Syrian government, Rahmoun explains.
He added that both governments have domestic problems and seek to resolve them by thawing ties.
The SDC noted that the Syrian government cannot rehabilitate itself, adding it tries to reach oil resources in northeast Syria as “it suffers a stifling economic crisis.”