Now, as Syrian government forces retake swathes of eastern Aleppo, threatening to crush the opposition in its most important urban stronghold, Turkish President Erdogan has lashed out at President Assad.
On Tuesday, the Turkish leader revealed the aims of the Euphrates Shield operation. "Why did we enter? We do not have an eye on Syrian soil. The issue is to provide lands to their real owners. That is to say we are there for the establishment of justice. We entered there to end the rule of the tyrant al-Assad who terrorizes the state. [We didn’t enter] for any other reason," the president said at the first Inter-Parliamentary Jerusalem Platform Symposium in Istanbul.
However on Thursday Recep Tayyip Erdogan changed his rhetoric, claiming that the Turkish military operation in Syria is aimed at "no country or person but only terror organizations." Turkish Hurryiet Daily News then suggested that such a sharp contrast in the president's rhetoric occurred after his phone conversation with President Putin on the Syrian issue.
Meanwhile, commenting on Erdogan's remarks, political observer for Turkish daily Aydınlık, Mehmet Ali Güller told Sputnik Turkiye that Ankara's goal in Syria us to annex the city of Aleppo as the 82nd province of Turkey.
"Erdogan is pursuing several aims in Syria," he told Sputnik.
"Apart from the purposes he outlined at the launch of the Euphrates Shield operation, which are the protection of Turkish borders from Daesh and countermeasures against the set-up of the Kurdish belt in the north of Syria, there is one more aim for Ankara's operation, which has been outlined by the pro-government Yeni Şafak newspaper, and that is an annexation of Aleppo as Turkey's 82nd province," he said.........sputniknews
[sputniknews.com]
2/12/16
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