“Our Foreign Minister was in Damascus yesterday. We hope that our visits will continue to increase from now on,” President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in a speech after Turkey’s cabinet concluded its 2025 budget vote.

“We are in close contact with Ahmed al-Shara”

“We all proudly follow the leaders of the new administration. We thank our Lord when we see our brothers and friends who were educated in Turkey and have a close bond with our nation in administration. We are in close contact with the leader of the Syrian revolution, Ahmed al-Shara. Our Foreign Minister was in Damascus yesterday. Hopefully our visits will continue to increase from here on out. We will provide all necessary support to the Syrian people who won the war against the cruel regime to achieve victory and make their success permanent. The hardest days are now behind us, God willing.

“Syria is a source of stability and confidence for the entire region”

I am sure that our Syrian brothers, who ended the darkness of 61 years of Baath, will put their country back on its feet with the unity of hands and hearts. I believe that Syria’s neighbors also see this important truth. Syria is a source of stability and confidence for the entire region.

We consider very valuable and essential the moderate messages given by the new administration. It seems that the reason behind Israel’s increasing aggression is to overshadow the revolution in Syria and crush the hopes of the Syrian people. Israel will sooner or later withdraw from the occupied territories, it will be forced to do so. The path followed by Netanyahu, who has the blood of 50 thousand innocents on his hands, is not the right one. If there is a state mind in Israel, the sooner they realize it, the better.”

Protecting the territorial integrity and unified structure of Syria is Turkey’s unchanging line. We will not back down from this. There is no place for terrorist organizations like the Islamic State (DAESH) and the Kurdish militia (PKK) in the future of Syria and our region. We will definitely eliminate these herds of killers, who give no one the right to life but themselves, and are a source of threat to our region. We will continue our precise operations against the separatist terrorist organization in Syria with the precision of a surgeon, without harming civilians. We welcome the determination of the Syrian administration in this matter.

We see that Western countries are gradually cutting off their support for these criminals. The circle around the PKK killers is narrowing, the end of the road is in sight. They will not be able to escape the painful fate that awaits them. With God’s permission we will get rid of this scourge that has been sucking our blood for 40 years. After we destroy the wall of terror, we will embrace many as Turks, Arabs and Kurds.

The dawn of these beautiful days is now beginning to be seen. As our today is better than yesterday, our tomorrow will be much better than today. I pray that God will help us.”