Why did the Iranian foreign minister recently visit Turkey after visiting with Syria’s Bashar al Assad and other top officials?
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif visited Damascus before arriving in Turkey, meeting with the Syrian regime’s Foreign Minister Walid al Muallem on April 16, 2019. Zarif also met with Bashar al Assad.
“It’s difficult for both Turkey and Syria to speak each other in a direct fashion [at the moment]. Iran appears to be the country playing a mediation role between the two countries,” said Cevat Ones, the former deputy director of the Turkish national intelligence agency. In order to keep the political situation under control, “developing ties with Syria is clearly an urgent need,” according to Ones.
The former top intelligence official believes that during the recent Zarif-Erdogan meeting, both sides discussed crucial issues ranging from establishing direct relations between Damascus and Ankara to the mechanisms of Turkey’s large Syrian refugee population and its return to Syria.Osman Bostan, a Turkish political analyst, believes that with the recent visit, Tehran wants to develop regional cooperation between Turkey, Iran and Syria to defend its interests across the Middle East.
He said that Iran is making a move on the Syrian chessboard to signal to Ankara that if it works with Iran in Syria, the reward could be the end of the YPG rule., where most of the country’s oilfields and two biggest dams are located, is a headache for both Turkey and Syria. It seems that, more than anything else, the YPG question has been facilitating the rapprochement between Ankara and Damascus.
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