The mood is rather festive in the Turkish pro-government press after the announcement of the spectacular fall of the Bashar El-Assad regime. Syrian refugees, around three to five million in Turkey, celebrated the end of the Syrian dictatorship in the streets of Istanbul, or even in the Hagia Sophia mosque.
From Doha, Qatar, where he was to negotiate a ceasefire in Syria with Iran and Russia, Hakan Fidan, the Turkish Foreign Minister recalled that the Islamo-nationalist president had recently tried to open, without success, talks with the Damascus regime: “Our president extended his hand to the regime but the latter refused it” he underlined, before launching: “from now on millions of Syrians will be able to return to their country, we have started working in this direction”reports the daily Türkiye.
“If dictator Assad had agreed to collaborate with Turkey, this would not have happened,” estimates a daily editorialist New Contract, nostalgic for the Ottoman Empire.
“All this blood and tears happened after the country left the Ottoman Empire, but now the Turkish flag has flown on the walls of Aleppo and where the Turkish flag is
