Turkey's president plans to travel to Syria for talks with the new regime in early 2025, mainly seeking cooperation in dealing with Kurdish forces.
In an important speech at the D8 Summit, the group of developed Islamic states that includes Egypt, Iran, Indonesia, Malaysia, Bangladesh, Nigeria, Pakistan and Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan focused on the Syrian issue and indirectly revealed the plans his for the region.
The President of Turkey from Cairo said that the establishment of a ceasefire in Lebanon and the fall of the Assad regime in Syria will be, "the beginning of a more positive period" .
"We must take the lead in developing new dynamics, to ensure internal peace in Palestine, Lebanon and Syria and to take pioneering steps against Israel, which continues its attacks with the open support of the United States." Erdogan asserted.
As it seems, everything is being prepared for his first official visit to Damascus, as his contacts with the al-Jolan regime have been confirmed.
According to Turkish media and sources in Damascus, he will visit Damascus in 15 days and may pray in the "Umayyad" Great Mosque. He will meet with the leader of HTS and his visit will basically be to introduce Ankara to the new leadership led by al-Jolani.
Bloomberg in Ankara reported yesterday that the Turkish government is already considering the possibility of soon removing the new leaders of Syria from the list of members of terrorist organizations, without expecting similar steps from other countries or the United Nations.
Despite American urgings to Ankara not to disturb Syria's Kurds, the Turkish leadership seems to have already prepared its next steps. According to a columnist of the Hurriyet newspaper, the program for Syria has been finalized and on March 1, 2025, an interim government will be established, which will be recognized by the people and a constitutional assembly will be created to draft and ratify the new Constitution.
After March 1, the process of disarming the Kurdish forces in the northern regions of Syria will begin.
The new Syrian leadership will call on all armed groups in Syria to lay down their arms, and a monitoring mechanism will be established during the disarmament process. Non-Syrians within the Kurdish PKK-YPG will have to leave the country, as well as the organization's leadership. PKK-YPG members who surrender their weapons will be able to join the Syrian army.
The head of the YPG, Mazloum Kobani, wants his region to remain under US supervision, but according to Hurriyet, the new plan is to place the Kurdish region under the control of the new Syrian government and Turkey. (A2 Televizion)
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