By Athena Papakosta

The British-born wife of ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is not seeking a divorce, said Dmitry Peskov, who in addition to being a Kremlin spokesman a representative of the Assad couple was also invited yesterday, Monday.

Reports in the Turkish Media said that the Asma Asad wants to put end her marriage and leave Russiawhere she and her husband were granted asylum after the collapse of the regime in Syria.

Responding to related questions from journalists, the Kremlin spokesman replied that the reports in question “do not correspond to reality”, while also denying that Bashar al-Assad lives under strict restrictions in the Russian capital and that his assets have been frozen.

In a written statement made public last week and attributed to him Bashar al-Assadits former president Syria reportedly stating that he had no intention of fleeing his country, but that he escaped at the request of Moscow through a Russian military base.

Its state media of Russia have so far not released any photos of the Assads from Moscow in an attempt to keep them out of the headlines as the Kremlin tries to forge ties with Syria’s new leadership.

Asma Assad has dual citizenship, Syrian and British, as she was born and raised in London, but the UK Foreign Secretary, David Lammy, has already explained in an address to the British Parliament that she is not allowed to enter the country.

Born in the UK in 1975 to Syrian parents, Asma grew up in Acton, west of London. In 2000, at the age of 25, she quit her job as a banker and married Asad.

She quickly became a controversial figure around the world, accused of using her British education and upbringing to manage to hide the brutality of her husband’s regime’s repression.

Just a few weeks before the flame of the Arab Spring ignited in Syria, Vogue magazine in a tribute it had published about her – and has now deleted from the digital environment of its editions around the world – called her “the rose of the desert” describing her as the most seductive first lady.

A month later, with Syria now descending into civil war, Mrs Assad was criticized for remaining silent on all that was now happening in the country.

In 2018 it became known that he was diagnosed with breast cancer and a year later that he managed to overcome it. A few months ago, last May, he was diagnosed with leukemia.