Russian experts: Erdogan’s policy is a cause of great concern to Moscow

MOSCOW, (ST)- Russian researcher in the European Law Department at the Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Foreign Ministry Nokolai Toborin  has stressed that President of the Turkish regime does not always act according to the law of sound mind and it doesn’t implement international agreements, particularly those relating to Syria.

In a statement to SANA reporter in Moscow, Toborin said that Russia is monitoring with great concern the developments in Syria, mainly in Idleb and neighboring areas, because these developments threaten of more escalation.

The Russian researcher added that Erdogan’s policy in Syria is a cause of concern to the Russian leadership and to the European Union, pointing out that several Turkish forces and parties reject Erdogan’s domestic and foreign policies.

 Idleb is a Syrian land and no country has the right to interfere in it

The Turkish regime doesn’t implement the agreements it had signed with Russia on Syria and it continues to make provocative statements threatening that it will press ahead with using military force in Idleb, said the Russian expert. He pointed out that such a policy is a source of concern to Russia, particularly because Idleb is a Syrian land and no foreign country has the right to interfere in it.

Talking in the language of force with Syria and Russia to solve the situation is rejected, he asserted, emphasizing that global terrorism doesn’t only threaten the Syrian people, it threatens international stability as a whole.

Syria has a legitimate government that can solve the Syrians’ issues without foreign interference

  He reiterated that Syria is an independent sovereign state with a legitimate government that can solve all issues relating to the Syrian people, whereas the “opposition” and its-linked terrorist groups reject any settlement of the crisis in Syria.

On her part, Erina Vidorova, the prominent researcher in the Near and Middle East Studies Center at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, said that Turkey has violated Astana and Sochi agreements and that the presence of Turkish forces in Syrian territories is illegal by itself.

She stressed that Turkey’s actions in Idleb contradict with all international agreements and conventions.

She made it clear that the Turkish regime’s authorities are supporting the terrorist groups militarily through supplying them with weapons and military equipment, and this may lead to more deterioration in the situation of the entire region.  

On his part, Andrei Choprigin, the prominent researcher at the Russian Faculty of Oriental Studies at the Economy School said that Erdogan’s relations with terrorist organizations have put him in trouble where he remains closely connected to these terror groups and does not know how to abandon them.

Hamda Mustafa