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News ID: 76664
Publish Date : 29 February 2020 - 01:04

Turkey Ought to Join Syria in Rooting Out Terrorists From Idlib


By: Kayhan Int’l Staff Writer

The Islamic Republic of Iran, as part of his unsparing efforts for peace and stability in the region, has once again offered its services to both Syria and Turkey to help defuse the crisis which is unnecessarily claiming the lives of the soldiers of the two countries, while the terrorists backed by the US and the illegal Zionist entity, continue to destabilize Idlib.
The villain of the piece is Washington and the purveyors of terrorism it backs. This warrants both Syria and Turkey to turn their guns on the macabrely murderous takfiris who in order to escape their total annihilations are trying to pit Ankara against Damascus.
It is unfortunate that the latest incident of the death of some 34 Turkish soldiers has angered President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and brought threats of retaliation from him, but as quickly pointed out by Russia, Ankara had mistakenly stationed its troopers on the wrong side, very near to the positions under occupation of the terrorists, and as a result when Syria used its right to target the US-backed elements, some of them died.
It is not too late to avoid such unwarranted casualties, and it is urgent for the mediators to work out a solution before the situation spirals out of control, as the US is trying to do, along with Israel which yesterday again violated the airspace of Syria by bombing positions in Quneitra.
Iran firmly believes participants of the Astana peace process initiated by Moscow, Ankara, and Tehran, in Kazakhstan some years ago for resolving the Syrian crisis, can take effective measures to battle terrorism, avoid harm to civilians and resolve the conflict through diplomacy.
A Foreign Ministry statement released in Tehran yesterday, explicitly said "Given the previous decision made by senior officials attending the Astana [peace] process on holding this meeting in our country, the Islamic Republic of Iran continues its efforts to resolve the differences.”
It is worth recalling that some days earlier on February 20 Turkey’s Foreign Ministry had said that Turkish, Russian and Iranian representatives were working on coordinating a date for a trilateral summit on the Syrian peace process.
Hopefully, the plan would be speeded to thwart the sinister designs of the US and its Zionist surrogate, which love to see the soldiers of the two neighbouring Muslim countries kill each other.
In fact, Turkey can greatly contribute to peace the moment it withdraws its intruding forces from Syria, which is now on the verge of eradicating once and for all, takfiri and other terrorist outfits, which means once liberation is complete, Damascus will be in a position to remove any concerns from Ankara of cross border provocations by any terrorist group.
Turkey, which had "zero problems” with Syria before the crisis was engineered by the US, Britain, France, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Israel, in 2011 and Ankara was dragged into the trap, should now take the bold step of holding direct talks with Damascus to remove all misconceptions.
In the meantime, the terrorists in Idlib, whose hands are stained with the innocent blood of hundreds of thousands of Syrian Muslims, in addition to the displacement of millions of people and the destruction of their homes and hearths, should not be shown the least mercy in Idlib.