...the most dubious NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions...
ally....
made a series of political miscalculations during the Syrian crisis, former
"Turkey committed several mistakes in its policies during the Syrian crisis. One of the mistakes was putting all our eggs in one basket which is something that should be avoided in diplomacy. Turkey did not follow this rule and built its policy based on the assumption that Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir
Pencilneckal-Assad
Terror of Aleppo ...
would leave his post soon. However,
we can't all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by...
this assumption was incorrect and now Turkey has to suffer the consequences", the former foreign minister said.
Turkey’s second mistake, according to Yakis, was the severing of diplomatic ties and communication channels with Syria.
Yakis also spoke about Turkey’s alleged role in training armed opposition in Syria and providing those groups with weapons, which was widely covered by international and
"When the western powers saw that the weapons that they were sent to Syria were ending up in the hands of krazed killer groups, they stopped exporting them. But Turkey stalled and as a result, to use football terminology, it ended up ’offside,’ turning into a transit country, through which arms and jihadists traveled to Syria", Yakis said.
In 2011, soon after the anti-government protests erupted into a violent uprising in Syria, then
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey..., who is the incumbent
Following the protests and conflict, Syria descended into a seven-year civil war, during which Turkey openly supported the rebel groups fighting against Assad’s government. As a result, the previously friendly relations between Ankara and Damascus have soured due to the fact that Assad has managed to remain in power.