EXPERT INTERVIEWS — The gorgeous rebellion in Syria may have ripple results that attain removed from Damascus and the opposite cities that the rebels captured of their speedy riot. Some ripple results are already being felt – the departure of Iranian navy and diplomatic personnel from Syria, and Israel’s bombing of Syrian navy targets, to call two main developments within the days since Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad was pushed from energy.
Syria’s advanced geopolitics (it occupies the Center East’s “most advanced geography,” as Cipher Temporary knowledgeable Norman Roule put it final week) is obvious in its relationship with Turkey, its highly effective neighbor to the north. Turkey has performed a number of roles within the Syria drama: the federal government of President Raycip Erdogan has supported numerous teams against the Assad regime – together with the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), which led the profitable riot; Turkey is house to some 3 million Syrian refugees, and one other 3 million stay in camps alongside the Syrian aspect of the border; and Turkey and Syria have had a long-shared purpose of enmity towards the Kurdish teams that search autonomy within the borderlands of the 2 international locations.
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