{"id":300106,"date":"2024-12-09T08:24:03","date_gmt":"2024-12-09T08:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=300106"},"modified":"2024-12-10T07:20:55","modified_gmt":"2024-12-10T07:20:55","slug":"turkey-knew-about-militants-plan-to-oust-assad-six-months-ago-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=300106","title":{"rendered":"Turkey knew about militants\u2019 plan to oust Assad \u2018six months ago\u2019: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"

Press TV \u2013 Dec 9, 2024<\/strong><\/h1>\n

The Turkish government knew about militants\u2019 plan to launch a major offensive against Bashar al-Assad\u2019s government, a report has revealed after the offensive ousted the Syrian president.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The militants notified Turkey about their intention to launch the attack around six months ago, Reuters reported on Monday, citing a \u201cdiplomat in the region\u201d and an alleged member of the anti-Damascus groups.<\/p>\n

The Syrian source told the agency that the militants \u201chad shown Turkey details of the planning,\u201d urging Ankara not to intervene in the attack.<\/p>\n

After communicating the scheme, the militants \u201cfelt they had received its (Ankara\u2019s) tacit approval,\u201d the sources noted.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was no way\u201d the militants \u201ccould go ahead without first notifying Turkey,\u201d one added.<\/p>\n

The comments came a day after the militants stormed the Syrian capital after scoring major gains in the Arab country\u2019s north around two weeks following their staging a resurgence.<\/p>\n

Reports, meanwhile, would point to strong support for the armed groups on the part of Ankara and some Western states, which have been acting as the main backers of anti-Damascus outfits since the outbreak of foreign-backed militancy in Syria in 2011.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan claimed that the country\u2019s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had tried in the months that ran up to the militant offensive to engage with Assad, adding Ankara “knew something was coming.”<\/p>\n

Reuters\u2019 sources also said the militants had \u201csensed a stiffening of Ankara’s stance towards Assad earlier this year.\u201d<\/p>\n

Turkish Deputy Foreign Minister Nuh Yilmaz, however, alleged that Ankara was not behind the offensive, and did not provide its consent.<\/p>\n

A Turkish official also told the agency that Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the main armed group that took on Syria during the militant offensive, “does not receive orders or direction from us [and] does not coordinate its operations with us either.”<\/p>\n

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The militants had notified Turkey about their plans to oust President Assad around six months ago, Reuters reported on Monday, citing a \u201cdiplomat in the region\u201d and an alleged member of the anti-Damascus groups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-300106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syria"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=300106"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":300159,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300106\/revisions\/300159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=300106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=300106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=300106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}