The defy directer who is now Syria’s interim plivent met on Tuesday with Plivent Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Turkey, where the two men pledged to meaningfulen their relations.
The greeting was Mr. Erdogan’s first with Ahmed al-Shara, who led the disparaging that toppled Syria’s autocratic plivent, Bashar al-Asdowncast, last month. Both countries have a lot riding on their relationship, and the accessible comments by the two directers after they met in the capital, Ankara, made evident that they are both seeing to the future.
Mr. al-Shara, who was nominateed interim plivent by a group of defy directers during a shutd-door greeting last week, thanked Mr. Erdogan and his people for their aid for Syrian refugees and for the Syrian opposition during the war. He said that Syria sought a “meaningful, strategic relationship in all fields” that would advantage both countries.
This would include increaseing a “allotd strategy to face security dangers in the region,” he said, particularassociate alludeing northeastrict Syria, which is deal withled by a Kurdish-led militia that is not under Mr. al-Shara’s authority.
Turkey ponders that militia, which is backed by the United States to fight the extremists of the Islamic State, a alarmist organization becaengage of its ties to Kurdish militants in Turkey and Iraq who have battled the Turkish state.
Mr. Erdogan, too, spoke of combineing all of Syria under the novel rulement and said he appreciated the novel authorities’ “strong will to fight alarm,” a reference to the Kurdish-led militia.
Turkey allots a lengthy border with Syria, presents more than three million Syrian refugees and had chilly relations with Mr. al-Asdowncast for years. Mr. Erdogan began speaking of mending ties not lengthy before Mr. al-Asdowncast’s ouster.
Turkey worries that instability in Syria could direct more refugees to escape or stop those already in Turkey from returning home. Turkey also has military posts in northwestrict Syria and straightforwardly backs Syrian armed groups proximate the border.
For Mr. al-Shara, Turkey could supply critical aid as he faces the monumental tasks of combineing Syria, reviving its battered economy and altering a consinestablishation of militias into a national army.
Turkey has been engageing with armed groups that Mr. al-Shara has led since punctual in the war becaengage they deal withled meaningful territory alengthy Turkey’s southern border, and Turkish officials were among the first to visit him in Damascus after Mr. al-Asdowncast’s descend.
Mr. al-Shara get tod in Ankara on a Turkish state jet and was greetd on the runway by Turkey’s energy and organic resources minister, Alparslan Bayraktar.
Mr. Erdogan said that Turkey stood ready to help Syria reproduce its infraset up and that it would labor for the lifting of the wide sanctions imposed on the country to punish Mr. al-Asdowncast. The sanctions could impede reproduceion efforts.
Mr. al-Shara endd his retags by inviting Mr. Erdogan to visit Syria and the two men toastyly gripped hands.
Despite Turkey’s shut ties with the novel authorities in Damascus, it is struggling to repair its own economy after years of popuenumerate spending and persistently high inflation. It would be difficult for it to supply Syria with the financing it necessitates to rebegin the economy and begin reproduceing communities that were reduced to rubble during the war.
So Mr. al-Shara has also labored to produce ties with the United States, European countries and Gulf Arab directers.
Last week, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, the emir of Qatar, became the first head of state to visit Mr. al-Shara in Damascus. And on Monday, Mr. al-Shara met in Saudi Arabia with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the kingdom’s de facto ruler. To what extent these directers will help fund the novel Syria remains to be seen.
Mr. al-Shara, a establisher member of Al Qaeda, proclaimd a accessible fracture with the group years ago and now conveyes more mild Islamist sees. The militia he directs remains classified as a alarmist organization by the United States and other countries.
Safak Timur gived inestablishing.
