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BackUS Ambassador to Ankara Tom Barrack Enthusiastically Welcomed the Syrian Developments
US Ambassador to Ankara Tom Barrack Enthusiastically Welcomed the Syrian Developments
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US Ambassador to Ankara Tom Barrack Enthusiastically Welcomed the Syrian Developments

Quick Look

  • US Ambassador to Ankara Tom Barrack welcomed the developments in Syria with enthusiasm and repeated the comments he made about the US Middle East Plan.
  • While the article criticizes that this perception is maintained by various segments in Türkiye, it emphasizes that Neo-Ottomanist expansionism is useless and questions the silence of the opposition.

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Why It Matters

The article discusses US Ambassador to Ankara Tom Barrack's enthusiastic statements regarding the developments in Syria and Donald Trump's comments on the Middle East Plan. He also emphasizes that this perception is maintained by various segments in Türkiye and that Neo-Ottomanist expansionism is useless.

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US Ambassador to Ankara Tom Barrack welcomed the developments in Syria with enthusiasm and his words once again showed that it is the USA that wrote the script of the play staged in the Middle East, assigned roles to everyone and made the editing:

"In continuation of US President Donald Trump's Middle East Plan, a united Syria for all is taking shape. Trump's farsighted leadership has paved the way for the orderly integration of the SDF into Syrian state institutions."

He said, "Trump's Middle East Plan and his far-sighted leadership", what more can he say...

PREGNANCY ISSUE...

Even though the situation is so clear, perception manipulation is being persistently tried to be continued not only by the government and its partners MHP and DEM Party, but also by the 2nd Republican, liberal, ethnicist and political Islamist segment.

Nevzat Çiçek, Editor-in-Chief of Independent Turkish, the Turkish-language digital organ of the British-based The Independent, and a regular commentator on Sözcü TV, is one of those mobilized to spread the perception of "game-making". He fulfills his function by saying, "Turkey has to be the protector of the Kurds in the region, especially in Syria. Turkey has become a game-making actor because the developments in the region make this necessary."

This is such an empty claim; It is based on the assumption that the USA and Israel will leave the reins in Turkey's hands and give up their ambitions in the region, and that everyone else is stupid enough to accept them without questioning.

NO BENEFIT FROM NEW OTTOMAN EXPANSION

Those who wanted to establish a four-part Kurdistan in a region where hot wars are always constant, came up with the formula of Ummah unity, which was marketed as the "Turkish-Kurdish-Arab Alliance" and that it should be under the protection of Turkey, in order to suppress the reactions in Turkey.

However, neo-Ottomanist expansionism benefits neither Turkey nor the region. Because Türkiye, Syria, Iran and Iraq, none of these countries can be the protector of the Kurds in these four countries without confronting each other. Ethnic and sectarian conflict emerges from here, and this benefits the USA and Israel.

Democracy cannot develop on the basis of ethnicity and sect. History, and especially the Middle East, is full of painful examples of this. If democracy is to come to the region, it will come with the class struggle of the workers, it will come with secularism and there will be no landless peasants left as a result of the dissolution of feudal structures!

SILENCE COMES FROM CONFESSION

One wonders what some of the opposition will do in the face of these developments.

Kılıçdaroğlu, the absolutely deceitful leader of the CHP, who still brazenly uses Atatürk's name, displays his support for the government by sharing messages in Turkish, Kurdish and Arabic on social media.

It seems that the NEW Party management, which claims "We are Ataturk's party" at every opportunity, has left the field to the AKP + MHP + DEM / Öcalan alliance, acting as if these events did not exist.

TİP, which voted yes to the framework law, maintains its profound silence while these shocking developments take place.

But the citizen asks: Does this opposition have any ideas about the 4-part Kurdistan under Turkey's protection and the obvious emphasis on the Ummah? You know, they supported the framework law that brought amnesty to the PKK terrorist organization by calling it "democracy", I wonder if they are allowing these developments by remaining silent...

What to Watch

AI outlook — possibilities, not facts

  • Closer coordination with the United States will increase in Türkiye's Syria policy.

    Likely · Within months

  • Opposition parties' criticism of these developments will continue and social debates will increase.

    Very likely · Within weeks

Open Questions

  • How will Türkiye's Syria policy be shaped in the short term?
  • What are the concrete policies of the opposition parties towards these developments?
  • How will the SDF's integration into Syrian state institutions take place?
  • What might be the effects of neo-Ottoman expansionism in the region in the long term?

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This article was originally published by Cumhuriyet.

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