Druze opposition to Ugarit Post: Safe zone is a Turkish term meaning a safe place for terrorists.. Ankara seeks to displace the Kurds and bring about demographic change in the region
During an exclusive interview with the coordinator of the Democratic Secular Syrians Association “Suwayda”, Samir Azzam, the “Ugarit Post” network raised many questions about the extent of Turkey’s ability to implement the safe zone model in northern Syria after the recent clan clashes in Ras al-Ain.
Are there risks and repercussions on the demographics of the targeted areas as a result of the establishment of the safe zone?
Do recent clan clashes in Ras al-Ain confirm that the “safe zone” is not viable?
Fighting has erupted between the Islamic factions continuously since its inception and in all of Turkey’s occupied regions in Idlib, Al-Bab, Jarablus, Afrin, Tal Abyad and Ras Al-Ain, and its frequency increased during this period. It is not possible to verify whether this is normal or has a specific purpose.
In any case, the term safe area is a Turkish term, and it means a safe area for terrorists to practice their terror in the occupied areas in order to push people to demand Turkey to include those areas in it to restore security, and this is the Turkish goal in the end.
Why does Turkey seek to establish the safe zone and deport one million Syrian refugees to it?
In the areas it calls “safe”, Turkey seeks to displace the Kurds and resettle one million Syrian Arab refugees to bring about demographic change, in order to achieve two “maximum and minimum” goals.
The ultimate goal is to include those regions into their entity after holding a referendum in those regions, as happened in Alexandretta in 1937 and annexing it in 1939, thus ensuring the results of the referendum in advance if international circumstances allow that.
The minimum goal is to displace the Kurds and bring about demographic change, as well as to separate the Kurds in Syria and the Kurds in Turkey.
What are the risks and repercussions expected from the establishment of the “safe zone” on the demographics of the targeted areas? Does the “safe zone” serve the interests of the Syrian government by not returning opponents to it to their original area?
Certainly, what Turkey calls the safe zone serves the Syrian regime in all cases, as it prevents the return of opponents to the regime’s areas, and this comforts the regime on more than one level, in addition to creating a demographic imbalance in those areas to Arabise them.
Here, it should be noted that the scheme of demographic change in the regions of northern Syria has been present in the minds and plans of the regime, Turkey, Russia and Iran since their agreement to launch the Astana process of “exchanges” in January 2017.
