Turkey losing whole game in Syria: Analyst

Press TV has interviewed Ibrahim Mousawi, a political analyst in Beirut, to discuss Turkish artillery shelling inside Syria.

The following is a rough transcription of the interview.

Press TV: It is interesting that Russia has said that what is occurring, Turkey shelling inside Syrian territory, the YPG Kurdish positions, that should be a matter for the Security Council to convene on and to find out if it is legal or not what is happening because this is basically violating another country’s sovereignty and yet the UN Security Council did not do that. What is your view of what Turkey is doing on Syrian territory?   

Mousawi: We know very well that the leadership in Turkey now is out of their mind because of the recent developments on ground. We know very well that on the battlefield the Syrian army with the support of the Russian air forces and with the support of the Iranians, Hezbollah, many other forces in Syria, proper actually, they were able to defeat the Takfiri groups that are being supported by Turkey. They have been able to liberate and to set free so many different territories in the area and this is a very sensitive area. We know very well from the very beginning that the Turks have ambitions on the Syrian territories. We know very well that they use the alibi of the Kurds there in order to interfere and intervene and carry military offensive inside the Syrian borders.

After the recent defeats which are very strategic in their nature, the Turks have felt that they are losing the whole game, that is why they wanted to do anything possible in order to blackmail the international community, in order to try to save their face after the defeats and in order to try to solidify the Takfiri groups that are being supported and where the arms being funneled from Turkey.

This is understandable from the Turkish side though it is irrational. It is understandable because they are losing the whole game. They did not believe at any point that this kind of collapse will happen to the front that is being supported by them. They are trying to escalate the situation where the international community could interfere in order to stop the march of the Syrian army troops, the march of the allies of Syria against the Takfiri groups because they know if Aleppo is finished, then we could say that most importantly, the most part of the Syrian battlefield could be like for the sake and for the favor of the Syrian government and Syrian system.

Press TV: Well based on your expertise, looking at the developments that are happening in Aleppo especially in northern Aleppo and how the army has made significant gains along with obviously Kurds making ground there, do you think that Aleppo will be retaken back and will be fully under the control of Syria and what that would mean in terms of the efforts by Turkey and Saudi Arabia in the war on Syria?

Mousawi: Well this is the estimation. If you go to the experts, if you go to the observers and I myself believe that it would not be much time before the recapture or the liberation of all of Aleppo. When we talk about this, we talk about a kind of total blockade against the Takfiri groups. Of course you are not going to liberate every inch but the whole area there would fall to the hands of the Syrian army and their allies and I believe this is again would be another page of defeat for the Saudis and for the Turks. That is why you are hearing a lot of screaming, and you are hearing and seeing this kind of escalation from the Turkish part. My estimation, my understanding is that in the coming weeks, maybe before that, we will see a kind of recapturing for the whole of Aleppo.

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