“Turkey is the central player in Syria after the fall of Assad,” tells meN12 Dr. Asa Ophir, a Turkish expert from the Middle Eastern and Political Science Department at Ariel University. They want a grip on Syria. ”
Dr. Ophir talks about reports and publications in Turkey, among other things in an interview with a senior Bahakir a-Sham, the terrorist organization that led a-Shar’a to the fall of Assad, who said they were planning to establish at least five Turkey’s military bases in Syria. They want to establish their grip on the ground not only in the north of the country, but also in the south – in areas of Homs and Damascus, and basically establish control of all Syria. ”
Turkey and Syria has already agreed between them over the past few weeks on the Turkish initiative to coach, guide and five Syria’s new security forces. “They are also going to guide Syria’s police, they are rebuilt in Damascus.
“If this state of affairs continues the same way – it is a matter of time before there is some confrontation between Turkey and Israel,” says Dr. Ophir. Syria. ”
Dr. Ophir notes that Turkey wants to export a lot of its extensive security industry to Syria, and among other things to market and make public relations to its military produce and pride in it.
He says that at present, Israeli attacks in Syria, with an emphasis on the Turkish consolidation attempt, have not been widely criticized in the media in Turkey – mainly because Turkey has been very busy in recent days against Erdogan and against the arrest of former Eastbul Mayor Akram Imamo. “The economic situation in Turkey doesn’t know what,” Dr. Ophir says, but I don’t think it will interfere with them – as it did not interfere with Iran. ”