Leaving Turkey alone with the Syrian authorities is completely unacceptable, since the Turkish leadership has no authority to determine the fate of Syria, said Dmitry Novikov, first deputy chairman of the State Duma’s Foreign Affairs Committee.
Earlier, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said that he called on his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to leave Turkey “face to face” with the Syrian authorities. Erdogan noted that the Syrian issue is by no means an adventure or an attempt to expand borders, Turkey entered there not at the invitation of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, but at the invitation of the Syrian people, and until the people invite her to leave, she will not leave.
“The statement is absolutely unacceptable from any point of view. <...> The question arises of who and on what basis is in Syria. Russian representatives work there in accordance with the request formally formulated by the legitimate government. As for Erdogan’s claims to determine fate Syria, the Turkish leadership does not have any authority for this, these powers are not granted by the Syrian authorities, these powers are not supported by any decisions of the UN, and this is actually an application to spontaneously Tova their will to neighboring countries, “- RIA Novosti said Novikov.
The deputy stressed that the attempt to separate the interests of Bashar al-Assad and the Syrian people looks “very peculiar”, since Assad himself received the necessary powers at the time from the Syrian people through the election process, in order to represent the interests of the people. And the fact that certain groups that had Syrian citizenship did not suit this, in itself does not mean anything.
“Until Turkey participated in Syrian affairs in order to minimize the costs of the activities of large terrorist organizations in one way or another, Turkey’s positive role could be recognized. If Turkey intends to revise these approaches and gain a certain monopoly in Syrian affairs, such interference in the internal political process of Syria, it is unacceptable. I think that we can not agree with this position neither in the framework of bilateral Russian-Turkish formats, nor in terms of our future work Syrian government, nor from the point of view of the position that we can borrow on international markets “, – he concluded Novikov.