Trilateral cooperation between Russia, Iran, and Turkey is the most effective way to settle the Syrian crisis, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said, adding that Moscow, Tehran, and Ankara have drafted a document aiming to resolve the crisis.

Russia’s foreign minister held a meeting in Moscow with his counterparts, Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu of Turkey and Mohammad Javad Zarif of Iran, in Moscow on Tuesday. (Source: rt.com/news)

Comment:

In times of war the first casualty is the truth, some say. And that’s true, sometimes issues which are crystal clear can be so distorted that it is almost unrecognisable for the masses, except for the ones Allah سبحانه وتعالى has Mercy on. It’s like boxing feints, which are manoeuvres designed to distract or mislead the opponent, by making them think that a certain action will take place when in fact, another action or no action actually occurs. This reality, without any doubt, is applicable to the trilateral alliance of Turkey, Russia and Iran to “solve” the Syrian crises. And especially the role Turkey plays therein.

As for Iran, it has made it clear that it has no problem of any kind to shed innocent Muslim blood in Syria in order to support the criminal regime of Bashar. Also Russia’s role is clear. Its role is to bomb the opposition forces in order to force them to join the negotiating table in Genève which is setup by the Americans. And as Lavrov has put it earlier, to prevent the rise of a (real) Islamic State, which the opposition is calling for after the collapse of the tyrannical regime of Bashar.

Even though Turkey’s role in the Syrian crisis is clear, it still manages to distort and mislead the people by turning and twisting.

Just some points to make this clear.

During the entire Syrian revolution, Turkey gave the impression that it supports some of the opposition forces. It is true that it gave some financial and logistic support to some of the factions However with the sole purpose to control the opposition and canalize it in accordance with US desires and plans. The purpose of the US from the beginning is to gain some of the opposition for its plan to secure a secular transition after Bashar. Turkey serves just as a proxy who does the dirty work of America.

It presented itself as the saviour of the people in East-Aleppo as he plead for a so-called ceasefire between, on one hand the Russian bombardments together with the regime forces backed up with Iranian militia, and on the other hand the opposition forces. So a safe passage can be realised for evacuating the citizens, the fighters and their families.

However the reality is that Turkey has played a big role by moving opposition forces who are feed by Turkey, from the surroundings of Aleppo to insignificant fighting’s with Bagdadi’s group and PYD in Jarablos and al-Bab under the operation code “Euphrates Shield”. By deliberately allocating the stronghold of Aleppo, it made the resistance in Aleppo weak which led to the take-over of the regime forces and mass killings of civilians. So which safe passage are we talking about? A safe passage after creating the circumstances which would undoubtedly lead to this emergency situation!?

And which ceasefire are we talking about, if regime forces are internationally backed up and opposition forces are deliberately weakened? What is Turkey really saying? Give up fighting the tyrannical regime and handover Aleppo and all other places as you are weak? If Erdogan is really concerned for the fate of the Muslims in Syria than he should instead of shouting for ceasefire, send the Turkish army to solve the matter in just days. But of course that isn’t part of America’s plan.

What is in accordance to the American plan is to weaken the opposition even further more by differentiating between the fighting opposition groups. The “moderate” and the “extremist”. Accordingly Turkey urged the “moderates” to distance themselves from the “extremists.” While Turkey forms alliances with the bloodthirsty Iranian regime and brutal Russian Kuffaar according with the US plan, to crush the Islamic uprising and yet it demands the Muslims to be split and be weakened!

Also his strong rhetoric about preventing a second Hama was welcomed by a lot of Muslims. But the in the meanwhile hundreds of thousands, children and woman died and he did not move an inch.

The list of deception is long, I could easily add a huge list of twisting and turning of Erdogan but I’ll leave it here.

I’ll end with the hadith of our Nobel Prophet ﷺ

الحرب خُدعة‏‏

“War is deception.”

The question is, who is being deceived here, the enemy as it should be or the Muslims (especially the Turkish Muslims?), of are the Muslims considered the enemy?

 

Okay Pala

Media Representative of Hizb ut Tahrir in the Netherlands