With the normalisation responses from the Syrian rebels won’t particularly be great and we’ve already seen a quite negative reaction. (I can’t embed videos sorry)

For one, threats have been made to Turkish bases, HTS no longer wave the Turkish banner either, protests and riots are breaking out in Hatay and occupied Syria.

With this normalisation, Turkey WILL have to pull out of the region. Unless of course, they pull a 180. However, Rebels will NOT want Turkey around, but that also means said rebel groups will lose their biggest supporter. And Turkey will have not only pull out, it will have to do it quickly.

Furthermore, Syria and Turkey will likely enter negotations, this could infact lead to alot of things.

Turkey might ask for Syria to recognize the YPG as terror groups, to stop funding the PKK and perhaps to recognize Hatay as a Turkish province, which Syria doesn’t do yet. It is most definitely to save face.

However, Russia is the one pulling the strings to get Turkey to do this. It also thus shows, Turkey is once again trying to be its own power, it may be in NATO - but it has its own goals. Essentially, Turkey tried to f*** over Syria and gets its Greater Turkiye area - and failed horribly.

hmm i dont know much about the syrian civil war so how would this affect it ? end the war, or like just release tensions for syria?

if it wasn’t for Russian mediation I feel like this normalisation wouldn’t go through since bashar made it very clear he won’t reconcile with any nations that conspired against syria and he named turkey specifically. It definitely will make things easier for Syria seeing that these terrorists will lose their biggest if not all backing. I don’t think Turkey will actually help Syria fight these groups tho, evacuation of the area is their main priority.

Seems like a good development... I hope the Kurds don't get f***ed over

There’s no way Turkey agrees to anything that isn’t basically wiping the entire north of Syria off the map

Their pawns in the region have already turned on them tho. Getting out is the best course of action

I want to say they won’t but given the history of the Kurdish people they will

I’d be interested to know what Turkey plans to leverage in negotiations in north Syria even so. I can’t see them just up and leaving. They’ve been trying to expand elsewhere along the Mediterranean; I’m not sure what further progress they’ve had in Libya but between the geopolitics of North Syria and the YPG/PKK stuff I feel like they’d rather do a suicide mission then just up and leave

thecradle.co/Article/news/14240

"Over the past several days, the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) suspended their operations with Washington’s forces in Syria in protest of continued drone strikes in the northeast of the country by Turkey, a NATO ally and member of the international coalition occupying Syria.

Ankara’s forces have escalated airstrikes on SDF-controlled territory in northeast Syria. Since the start of August, at least 20 civilians have been killed by the Turkish strikes, including two children.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported on 12 August that, since the beginning of the year, Turkish drones have targeted SDF controlled territory 51 times, killing dozens of civilians.

The SDF released a statement on 11 August claiming its forces killed 23 Turkish soldiers this month as retaliation for the civilian deaths caused by Ankara’s drone strikes.

On the same day, the US-led coalition released a statement saying that its representatives met with local Kurdish leaders in Hasakah governorate “to discuss community members’ concerns about recent military activity in northeast Syria.”

The statement also condemned attempts by “third party actors” disrupting the coalition’s alleged operations against ISIS.

“We denounce the killing of civilians by any and all armed groups,” the statement added, failing to mention Turkey’s continued aggression on Syria.

Turkey continuously violates Syrian sovereignty, and recently, has been planning to launch a full-scale military operation under the pretext of establishing a buffer zone between the Turkish border and military positions held by Kurdish militias.

Damascus has repeatedly condemned the Turkish aggression and has called on the NATO country to withdraw its forces immediately, and referring to Ankara’s plans in Syria as “imperialist.”

Recently, the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) has been coordinating with the SDF on the northern border to confront Ankara’s planned operation.

As part of these efforts, on the morning of 13 August a joint SAA and SDF force targeted the surroundings of a Turkish military base in northern Aleppo using artillery fire.

Damascus has vowed that it is ready to confront any possible Turkish offensive in northern Syria.

In light of this tension, Turkish media reports suggested this month that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad may hold a phone call with his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, under mediation from Russia.

In 2011, Turkey opened its border with Syria, facilitating the illegal entry of tens of thousands of foreign fighters into the country and contributing to the breakout of the 11-year conflict.

Turkey has also provided financial and military support to various extremist groups operating in Syria."

They will