This agreement does not make Syria and Turkey friends
Of course not, Syria and Turkey won't friends yet a long time. Just now they have a "common" problem with Kurds.
Russia is in bed with Turkey. But while there are many things I consider unacceptable for an ally, it is still way better than this:
'IS' supply channels through Turkey | All media content | DW | 26.11.2014
And yes, S-400 is being sold to Nato´s Turkey but can the Russians be sure Erdogan won´t use it as small present when crawling back to Washington?
Yes, Erdogan can betray at any time, and this "alliance" is nothing more than temporary.
Syrian Kurds are Syrian nationals, most of them. Some are refugees, but they can become Syrians if they want.
Oh shut da...You Baathi ass licker
Assad couldn't care less about the Kurds as long as they are not in the opposition.
When people start marching with a portrait of the guy like in N. Korea You gotta ask Yourself a couple questions.
He just published a notice for his "fellow Syrian national" who might wanna come back, to remind them of the old ways:
The site was launched on March 15 to mark the seventh anniversary of the Civil War
The huge reservoir includes 250,000 women
In the database you can enter a name and see if someone is required for questioning.
Check your name in Syrian regime's wanted list: 1.5 million people wanted
"The Ministry for National Reconciliation, he says, was established three and a half years ago. It brought to a successful conclusion 50 reconciliation projects before the Russian diplomatic and military operations started on September 30, 2015. The most celebrated of these resulted 18 months ago in 10,000 terrorists abandoning the old city of Homs (which they had devastated) without firing a shot. Today, another 50 such projects are in the works.
The purpose of reconciliation is to save Syrian lives and to shorten the war.
I ask what a reconciliation project looks like.
The minister replies that the strategy is to separate the foreign fighters from Syrian fighters. So what the ministry does is to communicate with influential local people and select some of them to form a local committee of reconciliation to act in its own name, formally independent of the Syrian government. The committee makes contact with the fighters and their leaders. It offers them a deal. It will provide safe passage out of a “rebel-held” area for those fighters who aren't interested in laying down their arms and receiving amnesty. For those Syrian fighters who lay down their arms and accept amnesty, the committee promises that security records will be cleared and jobs will be found. For those who wish to remain in arms, they are invited to join the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and can even form their own units.
Eight hundred former Syrian mercenaries switched sides and joined the SAA in Latakia Province alone. President Assad granted blanket amnesties eight times in the last five years for a total of about 20,000 former Syrian mercenaries.
But reconciliation is a lifetime project. Such bitter animosities among communities, formerly living in peace together for hundreds of years in pre-war Syria, have been created by the crimes of the foreign-backed terrorist mercenaries that many great gaps have been torn in the formerly pluralistic fabric of Syrian society. As a result, the project of reconciliation will be needed for a long time to prevent problems in the future.
As for refugees, the issue is even more complicated. There are internal and external refugees. And the Syrian government insists that it is not the cause of either type of refugees. Rather, the refugee problem is the direct consequence of five years of war of aggression waged against Syria by the West and Arabian monarchs.
The Syrian government doesn't know how many Syrians actually left the country because many people fled in panic of the terrorists without time even to take their documents. On the other hand, some neighboring countries are deliberately inflating the number of Syrian refugees within their borders to leverage their political power and to get funding from aid agencies and foreign governments."
Amid foreign imposed war, Syrian government works for reconciliation