Report: High-level Turkish officials to hold 'breakthrough' meeting with Assad

South Front
Sun, 16 Oct 2016 12:21 UTC

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Vision of the future?

According to a report of the Iranian Tasnim news agency, high-level Turkish officials will hold a meeting with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

A high-level Turkish political delegation is going to meet with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, the Iranian Tasnim news agency reported.

According to the report, a cabinet minister will head the Turkish delegation that will travel to Syria.

The meeting could be a breakthrough in modern relations between Damascus and Ankara, which claims that Assad must leave the post of the country's president at all costs.

Comment: Are we seeing a 'ten percent' change in Turkey's policy thanks to Russian pressure? As Assad said in his October 12th Interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda:

President Assad: Yeah, that's why I didn't say the Russians will change his policy; I said they will decrease the damage, because he - I mean, somebody who belongs to the Muslim Brotherhood's violent and extremist and fanatic ideology cannot be a straight person, to be frank, and to be realistic. So, what you're talking about is very realistic. I agree with you a hundred percent. But at the end, you have to try, you try; if he changed one percent, that's good, if he changed ten percent, then that's good. You don't have to have the full change, and we don't have this hope, we don't raise our expectations a lot, especially with somebody like Erdogan and his clique, but any change in this moment, that will be good, and this hope, that we have I think the same that the Russians officials have this time, through this relation. And I think this is the wisdom of the movement of the Russian government toward the Turkish government, not because they trust this government, but they need good relations with the people, and that's completely correct.

Comment: Turkey continues to make signs that it has turned away from American 'regime change' Syria. Check out:

But as was made clear by the US bombing of the Syrian army in Deir ez-Zor and the attack on the UN convoy that was blamed on Russia - two events in quick succession that served to destroy the Putin-Kerry agreed ceasefire - the US State Department and the Pentagon seem to be pursuing two different and mutually exclusive strategies. So it is no surprise then that, behind the scenes, Erdogan's approach in Syria was ruffling some feathers in the USA. Al-Monitor reports:

Operation Euphrates Shield, which was progressing rapidly, has slowed with the appearance of Americans in the field. Sabotage by some groups supported by the Pentagon that oppose the FSA and the withdrawal from the battlefield of some opposition groups that don't want to cooperate with the Americans have benefited Daesh [IS]. Daesh, which recaptured seven villages two days ago, last night retook five more villages from the opposition groups. ... Now there are allegations that the United States, in addition to planting sedition to disrupt the harmony of Euphrates Shield, is supplying Daesh with intelligence about the opposition groups and planning to send the PYD to al-Bab, which is being targeted by Turkey.

No 'Hot War', only dirty tricks as U.S. Imperialists go to the wire against Russia over Syria