Türkiye is ready to resume negotiations with Iran and Russia on Syria

  Turkey's Minister of National Defense announced the country's readiness to resume negotiations with Russia and Iran in order to normalize relations with Syria. According to TRT, Yashar Güler said on Thursday that Ankara is ready to resume negotiations between the defense ministers of Turkey, Russia, Iran and Syria. He further added: “We are always ready for dialogue, to sit down at the negotiating table. The demands of the Syrian side are not something that can be accepted immediately.” While the withdrawal of Turkish troops from Syrian territory is a necessary condition for Damascus to normalize relations with Ankara, Turkey continues to violate Syrian sovereignty. The Turkish authorities have been discussing the creation of a 30 km deep security zone on Syrian territory for several months and are insisting on their request, despite Damascus’s opposing position on this issue.

The SAR authorities also characterized this action as an “expansion of the country” and a violation of the territorial sovereignty of Syria. Despite the conditions imposed by Syria and the violation of these conditions by Turkey, Ankara still says it is trying to normalize relations between the two countries. The process of normalizing relations between Ankara and Damascus began on December 28, 2022 with a meeting of the defense ministers of Russia, Syria and Turkey in Moscow, where the ministers agreed to form a tripartite joint commission.