The defense ministers of Russia, Turkey The US and Syria met in Moscow for the first time in a decade to normalize their relationship after Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government supported the rebel side during the neighboring nation’s civil war.
According to the politician from the Near East territory, the issues they agreed to address are “the crisis in Syria, the problem with refugees”; in addition to coordinating efforts related to “combating all terrorist organizations within your neighboring nation.” The envoy of Turkey He remarked that the meetings had “a constructive atmosphere”, so he is sure that there will be more similar situations in the future.
During the war, the role played by the Eurasian nation was vital. Not only did it train and support various rebel groups that fought against the Syrian government, but much of the southern border was also important for development, a hideout for these forces and a major escape point for millions of civilians seeking to leave. the violence into which the country had plunged. Now the rapprochement between Turkey and their neighbors alarm the 4 million refugees living on the nation’s borders since 2011.
In recent years, from Ankara they began to accelerate the departure of these people through a policy called “voluntary returns”, where the officials announced that more than 100,000 citizens decided to return to their country of their own accord, although international organizations denounced that hundreds were detained in the streets, their homes and their jobs to forcibly sign a contract that forced them to leave the country.
election year
In 2023, Erdogan will play for re-election as president of Turkey in a third term, for which an important change could be seen in the policies presented by the president, in addition to a shift in various points of the international policy that he has with his neighbors.
The case of Syria is very special because it always had a very bad relationship with this country, but in recent months he went from stating that Al-Assad “is a terrorist who carried out state terrorism” to pointing out that a meeting with him “can take place”, because “there is no resentment in politics”.
The situation with immigrants also comes from a feeling against them that exists within Turkeyafter Erdogan noted: “Countries like us, who live in war-torn zones, bear the brunt of migration crises, not developed societies with a very loud voice.”
