Turkish Relationship with Assad and Refuges

All still is about land. Foto: mexdo

Here, as mentioned before, it was claimed Turkey is supporting ISIS, whereas in Turkey this was not claimed, but it was reported that Turkey is backing a regime change in Damascus.

A bad, as false- it was proven differently-, argument was that Assad should have used chemical weapons against its own people, the rebels. I only assumed, here they are now finally endorsing the wrong side and I just accepted this wrongdoing- there was more to think about and I got lost in other issues. Maybe, as I supposed, it could have been the fact that Assad as an Alhewit is Shiite and has a different religious conception than the Sunnites in Turkey. Nonetheless, the friend again, told me something new, that the majority of the people there do not support him, that there are much more rebels than I would have expected something that changes my opinion radically to the contrary, as I believe in democracy and the majority should decide only. Also he told me, something I already heard, that in Syria people are much more educated and do not want to accept dictatorships any longer and in general. Before I used to think, they should just be silent and give in and compared it with here: When here someone wants to throw over a government they certainly also create strong enemies. The rebels are still there I presume; along with Al Kaida/Al Nusra and the Islamic State while men, not families per se, due to the combats escape to Europe. Why do whole families not escape to safe places in Syria? The whole coast line is safe. 

Millions of them are in neighboring countries and in Turkey. The one who come here have apparently a different plan:  To create a new life here and bring their families here later on!

Nonetheless, the origin of that war and refugee crisis originating by those rebels –maybe paid- could be a very different one: According to Daniele Ganser there is a new discovery of the world’s largest gas field in the Golf of Persia region, comprising the countries Kantar and Iran. The Qataris, two years before the Syrian war started, wanted to build a pipeline transporting this gas through Saudi Arabia, Syria and Turkey towards Europe. However, Assad refused this pipeline being built through Syria while he allows a pipeline coming from Iran going through his country directly towards Greece and excluding Turkey.

The participation, according to Willy Wimmer, in that Syrian conflict and the invasion of Syria was always wanted and the reason why Assad had to resign or, better, to cause civil war and create a failed state. According to Wimmer, it is fact; both Israel and Turkey want to enlarge their territory. Next the Turks want to get Mosul in norther Iraq, which is a territory claimed by states, such as Iraq, Iran or the Kurds and then, later on, the Turks want to get some Greek islands.  

It is still all about L A N D!

MJW