Turkish Aggression on Syria

The Syrian Arab Army has recently won major battles against armed terrorist takfiri groups mainly in the town of Yabroud in Qalamoun area of Damascus countryside and in the area of al-Hosn citadel (Krak des Chevaliers) in Homs western countryside. The army has also achieved remarkable progress in Aleppo and foiled attempts by the armed groups and their supporters, including Israel, to change the balance of powers in the southern region.

All these successes, plus others across the Syrian land, have angered the anti-Syria alliance and provoked countries sponsoring terrorism in Syria to open new fronts for aggression on the country.

Turkey, under the government of the Development and Justice Party led by Recepe Tayyib Erdogan, seems to be no longer satisfied with the role it has been playing in harboring, arming, financing and training terrorists to send them to Syria in order to wreak havoc, destroy the state and steal the Syrians’ properties.

 Erdogan’s government, this time, has decided to be directly and deeply involved in the military aggression on Syria under a cover from Washington, giving no heed to the Turkish public opinion which opposes the Turkish government’s aggressive policy towards Syria.

The Turkish aggression started a few days ago when Turkish tank and artillery shells covered the infiltration of thousands of takfiri terrorists from Turkey into the Syrian strategic town of Kasab in the northern countryside of Lattakia. Clashes, described as the most violent, erupted between the Syrian Army and the Turkish-backed takfiri groups, causing the killing of tens of terrorists. In a later development and in a blatant violation of Syria’s sovereignty over its lands, the Turkish air defenses downed a Syrian fighter jet chasing mercenary terrorists inside the Syrian territories.

Fighters of the terrorist Jabhet al-Nousra and other al-Qaeda affiliated bodies formed the backbone of the mercenary groups which attacked Lattakia’s northern countryside.

The new Turkish aggression on Syria was seen by many political analysts, including Turkish ones, as a desperate attempt by Erdogan to divert the attention of the Turkish people away from the corruption scandals hitting his government, particularly before Turkey’s coming municipal elections. A large part of the Turkish people, the victim of Erdogan’s irresponsible and arrogant policies, sees the aggression as a war crime that shouldn’t go without punishment sooner or later. Other analysts interpreted the aggression as a response to Russia’s success in tackling the Ukrainian issue. 

All peace-advocating countries as well as the international community, that is presumed to protect international peace and security, are now demanded not only to call for self restraint but to strongly condemn and act against the Turkish aggression which violates the UN Charter and the International Security Council resolutions by attacking a sovereign state and by openly supporting the chaos, the terrorism and the thievery practiced by the armed terrorist groups infiltrating now and then into Syria across Turkish borders.

Desperate attempts have been made by Syria’s enemies at the military, media, political and economic levels to halt the progress of the Syrian army in the ongoing battles and to undermine Syria’s national resistant stances and key role in the region, but all these attempts have been doomed to failure thanks to the steadfastness of the Syrian people, leadership and army in confrontation of the global conspiracy. And, the more aggressive the war on Syria becomes, the stronger determination the Syrian people have to defend Syria and fight the terrorism coming from more than 80 countries.

H. Mustafa