Turkey 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.
