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On the 14th anniversary of the Arab Spring, which began with the self-immolation of a street vendor named Muhammed Bouazizi in Tunisia on December 17, 2010, the Bashar Assad regime in Syria collapsed. Foreign policy analyst Barçın Yinanç and T24 Foreign News Editor Buse Söğütlü evaluated the approaches of international and regional actors to the changes taking place in Syria. Although the regime change in Syria following a 14-year process that shook the Arab geography has created interest and enthusiasm in the Western world, Arab countries are cautious. Because the continuation of the Bashar Assad regime symbolized the failure of the Arab Spring. How do Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, who position themselves against political Islam and Turkey and Qatar out of fear that the Arab uprisings will overthrow their own regimes, view HTS? What messages did Egyptian President Sisi, who gathered representatives of the police, army and intelligence, give to protect his regime? Which messages coming out of Ankara are reviving the 2011 nightmare of Arab countries? Arab countries, which were ineffective against Israel in the Gaza war in particular, are already experiencing legitimacy issues and are keeping their distance from regime change in Syria. The West, on the other hand, is interested in the new regime after Assad was overthrown because the return of Syrian refugees and the migration issue are in their focus. Delegations from Britain, Germany and the USA visited Damascus in the days following HTS's seizure of power and gave messages of cooperation. What are the realities behind these rapid contacts with HTS, which is on the United Nations Security Council's list of "terrorist organizations"? While high-level contacts with Damascus continue, diplomatic contacts with Turkey, which is evaluated to have strengthened its hand in the Syrian field and diplomacy, have also accelerated. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen arrived in Ankara at full speed and announced the good news of an additional financing of $1 billion for Syrian refugees. However, this additional budget had already been decided before Assad fell. On the other hand, Leyen made the modernization of the Customs Union Agreement, which Turkey has been demanding for a long time, conditional on the solution of the Cyprus problem and sanctions against Russia. Could Ankara have played its hand better now that it has made its position in Syria more advantageous? Click to subscribe to the T24 YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/3sQke2C Click for Other Videos: https://t24.com.tr/video Join this channel to benefit from privileges: / @t24 T24 ► http://www.t24.com.tr/ Instagram ► / t24comtr Facebook ► / t24comtr X ► / t24comtr TikTok ► / t24comtr Bluesky ► https://bsky.app/profile/t24.com.tr