Turkish-backed extremists ‘headed to Damascus’ says Erdogan
The Cradle | December 6, 2024
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on 6 December that the extremist groups waging an assault against Idlib countryside, Aleppo, and Hama will be “continuing towards Damascus.”
“We do not want escalation to continue in the region,” the Turkish president claimed.
“Idlib, Hama, and Homs are in the hands of the Syrian opposition, and they are continuing towards Damascus. We extended our hand to Bashar al-Assad but he did not respond,” he added.
Homs has not fallen to the extremists, despite Erdogan’s statements. Yet some militants have entered its countryside.
Since the assault began on 27 November, the extremist factions have captured several areas in the Idlib and Aleppo countryside, Aleppo city itself, and several areas in the countryside and city of Hama.
Over the past two years, Damascus and Ankara have been discussing a potential normalization of ties under a Russian-sponsored initiative.
Yet President Bashar al-Assad and the Syrian government repeatedly demanded a Turkish commitment to withdraw its occupying forces from Syria and end its support of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and Ankara’s Syrian National Army (SNA) proxy, the two main forces leading the current assault on Syria.
Sources cited by Al Mayadeen when the attack began late last month implied Ankara is using the assault to pressure Assad in normalization talks.
Turkiye was among the leading countries which supported the US-backed war against Syria that began in 2011. It has supported extremist groups for over a decade, and allowed for the incorporation of ISIS elements and other violent extremist groups – such as Jaish al-Islam – into the SNA force, which acts as its proxy in Syria.
The Syrian army said on 5 December that it “repositioned” and “redeployed” its forces outside the city of Hama to “preserve the lives” of civilians and not expose them to battles. HTS-led factions were able on Thursday to storm several areas in Hama city’s northeastern neighborhoods.
Russian and Syrian airstrikes on militant positions and supply lines are ongoing.
“Our armed forces are targeting terrorists’ vehicles and gatherings in the northern and southern Hama countryside with artillery, missiles, and joint Syrian–Russian warplanes, killing and wounding dozens of them and destroying several vehicles and vehicles,” the Syrian Defense Ministry said on Friday.
A Syrian military source told Sham FM there is “no truth to the news on the terrorists’ pages about the army’s withdrawal from Homs.”
“We confirm that the Syrian Arab Army is present in Homs and its countryside, is deployed on fixed and solid defensive lines, and has been reinforced with additional large forces equipped with various types of equipment and weapons,” the source added. The Defense Ministry confirmed this shortly after.
According to several media outlets, Syrian and Russian aircraft are launching heavy strikes targeting HTS-led militants in the towns of Talbiseh and Rastan in the Homs countryside.
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Noted. Angst, apprehensiveness. Russia to the rescue! (Iran? Hezbollah?)
Viva Syria!
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Why doesn’t Russia make clearer statements as to what is going on?
“Over the past two years, Damascus and Ankara have been discussing a potential normalization of ties under a Russian-sponsored initiative.”
So for two years ‘Damascus’ (the Assad regime) has been attempting to ‘normalize’ their relationship with ‘Ankara’ (the Erdogan regime) under the tutelage of the Putin regime.
Two years of sheer warmongering devastation for everyday people ‘on the ground.’
Assad/Damascus is attempting to ‘normalize’ with Erdogan/Ankara while obviously well aware that Erdogan/Ankara are at the same time sponsoring regime-change agents inside Syria.
The alleged answer to this is that the big Russian bear will oversee things – even if not exactly in the interest of peace per se, rather in Russia’s own national interest – which Putin is alleged to represent. This is supposedly still better than the current status quo.
But is it?
In ‘overseeing’ things via its ‘Russian-sponsored initiative’ the Putin/Russia regime is actually bombing the f*ck out of Syria in concert with Syria’s own forces in order to root out change agents that are sponsored by Turkey.
Returning to the question ‘Why doesn’t Russia make clearer statements as to what is going on?’ I believe I’ve answered my own question.
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Watch the otherwise statesmanlike Sergey Lavrov’s obviously uncomfortable reaction and non-answer when Tucker Carlson asks him directly about Russian casualties in what Russia refers to as its ‘Special Military Operation’ in Ukraine.
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“In the battle of good versus evil, it’s the people who die.”
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“In ‘overseeing’ things via its ‘Russian-sponsored initiative’ the Putin/Russia regime is actually bombing the f*ck out of Syria in concert with Syria’s own forces in order to root out change agents that are sponsored by Turkey.”
‘in order to root out change agents that are sponsored by Turkey’
Turkey = NATO = US = Israel
Oded Yinon plan. The Jewish establishment’s plan for the region and the world going back centuries, as outlined in B’nai B’rith meeting minutes.
What countries have ‘holocaust’ denial laws? Does Russia?
The answer to the aformentioned question is yes.
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has voiced support for the jihadist insurgency in Syria, urging the Islamists to continue their march to Damascus, various media outlets reported on Friday.
Militant forces in Syria led by the group Hayat Tahrir-al-Sham, formerly known as Jabhat al-Nusra, last week launched a surprise assault from their base in Idlib, targeting the province of Aleppo.
Hayat Tahrir-al-Sham, which translates as “Organization for the Liberation of the Levant” and is commonly known as HTS, is considered a terrorist organization by Syria, Russia, Iran, the US, and other countries.
Despite Türkiye’s apparent support for HTS, it also officially classes it as a terrorist group.
Over the past week, the militants have driven back government forces and captured significant chunks of territory in Aleppo and Idlib, and on Thursday surrounded the key city of Hama.
According to media reports on Friday, thousands of people are fleeing Syria’s third-largest city of Homs, amid reports that the militants continue to advance. Homs is the next city south on the road from Aleppo to Damascus. HTS leader Abu Mohammed al-Jawlani has reportedly warned the residents of Homs: “your time has come.”
Addressing key regional issues, Erdogan said on Friday that he hopes the jihadists in Syria will continue to move forward without any problems.
“Idlib, Hama, Homs, and the target, of course, is Damascus. The opposition’s march continues,” the Turkish president was quoted as telling reporters in Istanbul. “Our wish is that this march in Syria continues without accidents or disasters,” he added.
Ankara made a call to Damascus “to determine the future of Syria together,” according to Erdogan, but “did not receive a positive response.”
While Erdogan has expressed his commitment to the territorial integrity of Syria, he also said that the “legitimate opposition” needs to be heard.
https://www.rt.com/news/608840-erdogan-wishes-luck-jihadists-syria/
Erdogan may as well be working for Israel. And Putin and Russia haven’t made any of their famous wink-and-a-nod sardonic comments about this rather obvious truism. None.
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US-backed militants seize city in Syria
The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a US-backed military coalition dominated by Kurdish groups, has seized the eastern Syrian city of Deir ez-Zor, according to Reuters.
https://www.rt.com/news/608857-us-backed-militants-syria-city/
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From the archives:
Blackout In Aleppo: ‘Israel’ Bombs Syria’s Second City From US-SDF-Occupied Areas, Reaffirming Zionist-Kurdish Alliance (March 2019)
The recent ‘Israeli’ raids on Aleppo, Syria’s economic capital, were typically demonstrative of Zionist brutality and intent to harm Gentile life. Sheikh Najjar Industrial Complex, the neighborhood of Jibrin and a civilian airport were all hit by the usurping Zionist entity’s missiles, which ultimately triggered a blackout, terrorizing the Halabi citizenry.
This isn’t the first time that Syria has experienced its lights going kablooey as a result of Zio-Imperialist aggression. In this instance however, it is not WHAT Zion bombed that this is so significant, nor the AFTER EFFECTS of the attack, but rather from WHERE Zion executed the illegal, Syrian-sovereignty-violating bombings.
Dajjal HQ (‘Israel’) attacked Syria’s second city from US-SDF-occupied territory. This has been confirmed by both Western intelligence sources as well as social media military data trackers close to the Syrian Arab Army.
Not through Lebanon. Not through occupied Al-Jaulan. Not from the Galilee regions of occupied Palestine. And not from the Syrian-Iraqi border either. US-SDF-occupied territory. The implications couldn’t be more blatant.
THIS is why the neocons hammered US ZOG Figurehead 45 Donald J. Trump following his announcement that the United Snakes’ military will be fully withdrawn from Bilad al-Sham. And THIS is why Trump, arrogant and spineless, has ultimately capitulated to this very demand by the Zio-Tumor’s American fifth columnists, keeping hundreds of American occupation forces in Syria.
US troops are continuing their illegal presence on Syrian soil as guarantors of ‘Israeli’ aggression. For ‘Israel’ knows that Syria, Iran, Hizbullah and Russia aren’t going to risk WW3 by mistakenly clipping the wings of an American war-jet or sending American soldiers to hellfire when ‘Israelis’ were really the target.
Additionally, when we consider that the SDF is predominantly comprised of Kurdish fighters, this adds yet another layer of credence to the increasingly indisputable truth that the the ‘Israelis’ and Kurds, linked in a cornucopia of different ways from military-intelligence support going back decades to ethnic/historical connections, are working hand-in-glove to keep Syria weakened and balkanized.
https://mouqawamahmusic.net/blackout-in-aleppo-israel-bombs-syrias-second-city-from-us-sdf-occupied-areas-reaffirming-zionist-kurdish-alliance/
[Jonathan Azaziah’s family name is Jonathan Michael Goldiner. Azaziah means ‘Yahweh is strong’ in Hebrew]
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