“A nightingale sings in Hama and is beheaded”breathes Recep Tayyip Erdogan. In August 2011, in Istanbul, the Turkish prime minister cited the verses of an Islamist poet about the massacre that occurred in 1982 in the Syrian city, where the regime had repressed a Muslim Brotherhood insurrection in a bloodbath. “How can we accept that this immense pain happens again thirty years later in this devastated city of a country that we once called our brother? »he continues, referring to the offensive carried out a few days before this month of August by the army against demonstrators in the martyred city. The Assad clan's repression against the “Syrian Spring” was in its early stages.
It took thirteen years for the wind of protest to sweep the Alawite regime. Thirteen years during which Turkey continued to get involved in the opposition forces. To the point of finding itself today on the front line to impose its views on the territorial integrity of its neighbor. But also to guarantee the future government of Damascus diplomatic cover as well as taking charge, literally, of the reconstruction of the country.
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Source: Lemonde