Turkey will supply weapons, military equipment and logistical support to Syria under a defense cooperation agreement signed Wednesday in Ankara, Turkish Defense Ministry officials said.
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The memorandum, signed by Turkish Defense Minister Yasar Guler and Syrian Defense Minister Murhaf Abu Qasra, also covers military training and information sharing between the two countries.
The accord comes after sectarian clashes in Sweida between Druze and Bedouins, which drew in Syrian forces and Israel, and the renewed fighting between Syrian government forces and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). Ankara considers the SDF a terrorist group linked to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party.
At a press conference in Ankara, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan warned Israel and the U.S.-allied SDF to halt actions that threaten Syria’s stability, accusing them of undermining the country’s recovery after more than a decade of civil war.
Fidan also accused the SDF of delaying the implementation of an agreement reached in March to merge with the Syrian army.
In a conference held last week, representatives of Syria’s various ethnic and religious groups, led by the SDF, called for the creation of a decentralized state and the drafting of a new constitution that guarantees religious, cultural, and ethnic pluralism.
The Syrian government criticized the meeting, claiming that some attendees had secessionist ambitions. As a result, it said it no longer plans to participate in the Paris talks with the SDF that had been previously agreed upon.
