Hakan Fidan spoke to the panel “New Dawn for Damascus: Prospects for the Syrian transition process” at the 61st Munich Security Conference (MSc 2025) held in Munich, Germany.

Minister Fidan said that after the overthrow of the Bashar al -Assad regime they met with countries in the region and discussed their expectations from the new government in Damascus and added that after many years they had the opportunity to solve the problems in Syria, which had caused it. instability in the area for more than 10 years.

The Turkish Foreign Minister, who drew attention to the consensus of regional countries on Syria, said: “These principles are the following. We do not want to see threats to neighboring countries. We do not want terrorism to grow and gain ground. We do not want minorities to be mistreated. We want to ensure the territorial integrity and political sovereignty of Syria”

Fidan said the new administration in Syria responded well to the demands of the international and regional community and that he has not received major complaints about Syrian administration from his counterparts and other officials and that these people are aware of the difficulties that Syria must overcome.

“There should be only one legal armed force in every country”

Stressing that one of the most important issues for ensuring stability in Syria is the union of armed groups, Fidan said the new government in the country is facing this issue as a whole.

Fidan estimated that the Syrian government made the right steps to unite the armed groups, saying: “As we understand things, right now are taking the right steps to unite the armed groups, because in our opinion, there must be Only one legal armed force in any country, “he said.

The Turkish Foreign Minister then emphasized that no armed group could tolerate and pointed out that they have learned from the experience that this brings chaos and volatility to the area. He noted that the armed groups should be concentrated under a single national army to ensure the order and security of the people in the country.

“Of course, we re -calculate every step we take in Syria. Our primary goal and deal with Syria right now is how we can help them rebuild, how we can restore the economy and then how we can rebuild state institutions“, He said.

Fidan said Turkey is expected to be on the side of Syria in the fight against terrorist organizations “Because PKK/YPG is a major threat to Syria and the whole region, such as ISIS and because international terrorists from Turkey, Iraq and Iran are gathering and currently fed in northern Syria and hide on the pretext of fighting against him against him. ISIS“He said.