Türkiye appoints chargé d’affaires in Syria twelve years later

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MADRID Dec. 12 () –

The Government of Turkey decided this Thursday to resume diplomatic relations with Syria and appoint a chargé d’affaires more than twelve years after Ankara broke off relations due to clashes within the framework of the Syrian civil war, according to the Turkish state agency Anatolia. .

According to this information, the president of Türkiye, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, would have appointed the ambassador to Mauritania, Burhan Koroglu, as the new temporary chargé d’affaires for the Embassy in Damascus; while the Foreign Minister, Hakan Fidan, would have already communicated the news to him.

The Turkish Embassy ceased its activities in March 2012 in the context of the Syrian civil war and due to the deterioration of security conditions in a country that now, more than twelve years later, sees an offensive by rebels and jihadists has managed to overthrow the Bashar al Assad regime.

Within the framework of the conflict in Syrian territory, Turkey is carrying out a “fight against terrorism” operation against the Islamic State and against the Kurdish militia People’s Protection Units (YPF), considered the Syrian branch of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). ), classified as a terrorist organization by Ankara.