Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu has signed that a new move to resolve the 17-month-long Syrian crisis will come out within a couple of days, adding up that this move would include the principal actors in the Middle East, including Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Iran.
“These days, we are centering on a assembling for the Syrian crisis that will bring Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Iran together,” Davutoğlu told reporter, aboard the plane on the way to Ankara from Bishkek on Thursday.
“We’re in close contact with the new administration in Egypt. The Egyptian president and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) suggested a meeting, and we’re looking positively at it. We’re doing our best,” added up Davutoğlu.
Experts agree that though it’s hard for such an move to accomplish the desired consequence, it’s an crucial step to bring the territorial powers together to come up a territorial solution to the Syrian crisis, which has evolved into a regional crisis.
“This move is very significant because the Syrian crisis has evolved into a territorial crisis. This regional crisis ought to be solved by the move of regional powers,” Veysel Ayhan, an expert on the Middle East from Abant İzzet Baysal University, told.
The crisis in Syria has dragged on for far longer than any other Arab Spring arising, in part because of President Basher al-Assad’s unwillingness to fulfill the demands of the Syrian people but also because of rifts among the world powers.
“If this regional move had been built up in the very starting of the crisis, the death toll in Syria wouldn’t have arrived at this point,” added Ayhan.
Since the starting of the crisis, several meetings and conferences were held to pressure the Assad regime to step down but went wrong to accomplish the desired goal.
One of the most significant meeting was the “Friends of Syria Meeting,” which was an move that brought together the US and European and Arab countries besides Turkey. It was systematically negatived by the 2 allies of the Assad regime, Russia and China.
Russia and China have contradicted tougher United Nations sanctions against Damascus, a long-time strategical friend, but refuses it’s actively assisting Assad remain in power.
