Jan 22, 2025 · The Presidential Cabinet convened under the chairmanship of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan at the Presidential Complex on Jan. 21, 2025 in Ankara, Turkey. Photo by Ugur Yildirim/dia images via Getty Images. Hay Eytan Cohen Yanarocak. ... installing in Damascus a regime dependent on Turkey and curbing the influence of rivals such as Iran and ...

Dec 6, 2024 · Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan addressed key regional issues on Friday, including the ongoing developments in Syria, expressing hope for "a smooth continuation of anti-regime forces’ advance toward Damascus."

Dec 30, 2024 · Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is encountering significant difficulties with Abu Mohammad al-Julani and his forces in Syria. In a familiar Middle Eastern pattern, Erdoğan had initially supported Julani’s group, providing training, arms, uniforms and resources.

Dec 8, 2024 · President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Dec. 7 that there is now a "new political and diplomatic reality" in Syria, as an opposition alliance has toppled longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad. "Syria belongs to the Syrians along with all their ethnic, sectarian and religious diversity," Erdoğan told his ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP ...

Dec 13, 2024 · Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, had long worked with and supported the Syrian rebels who marched on Damascus this month and forced President Bashar al-Assad to flee.

Dec 11, 2024 · Addressing an event on human rights on Wednesday organized by his Justice and Development Party (AK Party), President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan hailed victory by the people of Syria against the Baathist regime of Bashar Assad. He said the door to peace opened with the end of the “bloody regime.”

Dec 10, 2024 · Addressing a convention of his Justice and Development Party (AK Party) on Tuesday in the capital of Ankara, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Türkiye would stand with the people of Syria “to preserve its territorial integrity” and that terrorism in Syria by PKK/YPG and Daesh would be “crushed.”

Dec 18, 2024 · Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan welcomed France’s decision to send diplomats to Damascus after the fall of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad, in a phone call with President Emmanuel Macron, the ...

Nov 13, 2024 · ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said he remains hopeful that a reconciliation with Syrian President Bashar Assad can be achieved to end more than a decade of tensions between their two neighboring countries, state-run media reported on Wednesday.

Dec 10, 2024 · President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan held a phone call with NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte to discuss the latest situation in Syria since the collapse of the Bashar Assad regime, the Turkish Presidency said Tuesday.