Turkey uses Zaher al-Saket to reorganize terrorists in Syria
The battles that took place in
northern Syria in 2019 and early this year cast a shadow over the terrorist groups
there. Turkey has realized the weakness of these terrorist groups on the back
of victories of the Syrian army in freeing many villages in northern Syria.
Ankara is now baffled as some groups
exist only on paper without any effect on the ground.
Therefore, Turkey is seeking to set
up a new military entity to rearrange the terrorist groups in Syria with the
help of a trusted man. To this end, Turkey has selected Syrian army defector,
Brigadier Zaher al-Saket.
There is no information about
al-Saket prior to his defection from the Syrian army in 2013. He was born in
Aleppo, and was the head of the chemistry department in the 5th
division of the Syrian army.
In the wake of internal conflicts, the
terrorist factions attacked the new group as some people spread news that al-Saket
would send a military group to Libya, while others claimed he protect the Turkish
military checkpoints as an alternative to the Syrian National Army, which was
formed by Turkey earlier.
Al-Saket said whoever promoted such
news are negatively impacted by the new entity, stressing that his new group would
emulate the Syrian National Army, which wouldn’t be disbanded.
Al-Saket is at odds with most of the
terrorist groups in northern Syria, including Hayat Tahrir al-Sham. Al-Saket
said he had information Hayat Tahrir al-Sham and the United States have a
political agreement.
However, he suggested that Hayat
Tahrir al-Sham would be disbanded as factions have split from it.
