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President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Tuesday vowed neither Türkiye nor Syria would tolerate those who “seek to stir up chaos” in Syria.
“War barons investing in chaos will lose this time; Syrian people, including Arabs, Kurds, Turkmens, Alawites, Sunnis, and Christians, will prevail,” Erdoğan told reporters on his way back from a visit to China, where he attended a summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and met many world leaders.
“We will not abandon Syria. We will continue to stand by them. God willing, no one will be able to prevent Syria from rising again,” he added.
The president said: “Whoever tries to undermine this process will pay the price. Wherever they live, Kurds are our brothers and sisters. No one can drive us apart.”
Erdoğan was referring to the YPG terrorist group’s impending integration into the new Syrian army and the PKK’s disarmament process in Türkiye.
Ankara views the YPG as an extension of the PKK terrorist group, which recently announced its dissolution and began a disarmament process that will end 40 years of bloodshed in Türkiye. The YPG insists it is not a party to the disarmament.
It has also stalled implementing a March deal it made with the interim government in Damascus, which would integrate the YPG into the Syrian national army, bring all border crossings with Iraq and Türkiye, as well as airports and oil fields in the northeast, under the central government’s control.
However, the YPG’s insistence on entering the army as one bloc has stalled the process, and there have been scattered outbreaks of violence. The group has also been making statements calling for autonomy and thus endangering the territorial integrity of Syria.
