Managing Syria increases Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan’s popularity. With Syria as the main issue, the YPG Kurds, and those Kurdish refugees, counted for now, returning home from Turkey, Syria will dominate today’s cabinet. under President Erdogan.

The Syrian issue now fully occupies the Turkish political agenda as it is a useful tool of both foreign and domestic policy. As the latest opinion polls show, the handling of the Syrian gave several points to the Turkish president in the last days.

When asked if presidential elections were held this Sunday, who would you vote for as president, 26.5% of respondents answered Erdogan and only 17% the popular mayor of Ankara, while 13.2% was collected by the mayor of Istanbul. Most interestingly, the surprise name of Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan appeared for the first time with 6.3%. He has only been in this position for a year, but with intense activity to be mentioned as a possible successor to the Turkish president.

Yesterday in Damascus, Fidan gave the opportunity of the first press conference with a foreign official, to the jihadist new leader of Syria, Al-Jolani, who in a western guise next to Fidan spoke about the new Syria, the rights of minorities, the rule of law, the economic recovery and the reconstruction of Syria.

Behind Fidan and Jolani’s statements, however, it was clear that what Ankara is interested in is the elimination of the PYD Kurds, and the remnants of ISIS, from “the face of Syria”, and that this can be done with Jolani’s HTS organization and with the Turkish army, if necessary, as Hakan Fidan said.

Some commentators in Turkey have warned of the danger of Ankara sinking into the Syrian “swamp” from which it will not be able to get out. While for the annihilation of the Kurds of Syria, they warn about the support they may have from Israel beyond that of the Americans of course. For now, however, Turkey seems determined to move closer, adopting the new Syria and becoming the dominant power in the region, while the Turkish president reiterated yesterday that Turkey needs a new Constitution.