{"id":1506583,"date":"2024-12-07T12:35:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-07T17:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1506583"},"modified":"2024-12-07T12:35:00","modified_gmt":"2024-12-07T17:35:00","slug":"target-is-damascus-erdogan-hopes-smooth-march-toward-toppling-assad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/target-is-damascus-erdogan-hopes-smooth-march-toward-toppling-assad\/1506583\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Target is Damascus,’ Erdogan Hopes ‘Smooth March’ Toward Toppling Assad"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘Target is Damascus,’ Erdogan Hopes ‘Smooth March’ Toward Toppling Assad<\/span><\/p>\n

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After Friday prayers in Ankara, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan issued an unexpected statement which for many is tantamount to a full-on admission this his intelligence services are behind Hayat Tahrir al-Sham’s capture of Aleppo, and ongoing blitz south.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“The target is Damascus,”<\/strong> he said<\/a> bluntly. “I would say we hope for this advance to continue without any issues<\/strong>.” Thus the president of Turkey has just issued over approval for a jihadist-led regime change operation, which echoes the bloodshed of over a decade ago which began in 2011.<\/p>\n

Via AFP<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

But then given Turkey is a NATO member state, he quickly sought to put a little distance between himself and the fact that it’s a US-designated terrorist group leading the offensive, which is currently threatening central Syria, particularly the strategic city of Homs.<\/p>\n

“However, while this resistance there with terrorist organizations is continuing, we had made a call to Assad<\/strong>,” he continued. It’s been well-known that Assad has long rebuffed these overtures, even as other regional states return their ambassadors to Damascus.<\/p>\n

“These problematic advances continuing as a whole in the region are not in a manner we desire, our heart does not want these. Unfortunately, the region is in a bind,” Erdogan continued, without giving further details.<\/p>\n

Erdogan has just announced he\u2019s being the invasion of Syria which he hopes will go to Damascus.<\/p>\n

What next from Astana, Russia & Iran?pic.twitter.com\/7tOHuskFXY<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Syrian Girl \ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddfe (@Partisangirl) December 6, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n

Turkish forces have for years occupied a northern strip of Syria, northeast of Aleppo, and next to where the US occupation has been maintained.<\/p>\n

Damascus has long charged Turkey with facilitating a ‘jihadi highway’ of foreign fighters into sovereign Syrian territory<\/strong>, unleashing hell on the population<\/strong> – including the Kurds<\/strong> (who are hated by Turkey). This is something even US and Western officials have long admitted happened, even in the case of the rise of ISIS.<\/p>\n

BREAKING- Erdogan says he hopes Syrian rebels\u2019 march to Homs and Damascus will continue without any accidents and troubles.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had called Assad. We said, let’s determine the future of Syria together. We did not receive a positive response.\u201d<\/p>\n

pic.twitter.com\/zy5cqE37Bg<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Rag\u0131p Soylu (@ragipsoylu) December 6, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n

Indeed the so-called Astana deal and process appears to be in complete shambles, already a thing of the past, as Russian and Syrian warplanes are struggling to bomb the numerous Turkish proxies making their way south on a central highway.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nSat, 12\/07\/2024 – 07:35<\/span><\/p>\n

\u200bhttps:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/target-damascus-erdogan-hopes-smooth-march-toward-toppling-assad<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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