In Syria some only have interests; Turkey has a concern

Turkey is the first country affected in the first degree by every development in Syria. In this problem, which has been going on for more than eight years, none of the countries involved, whether with their own military presence or through forces to which they have delegated, other than Turkey, faces even the humanitarian problems of the policies they pursue. None of them is willing even to put a hand under the stone to solve the humanitarian problems they themselves produced. Everyone only produces problems, causing existing problems to deepen further.

Russia has only interests in Syria; there is nothing here that threatens its security, and not even a single person reaches its territory from any population movement here. But Russia, in cooperation with the regime, is a primary actor in all the processes that have made the country unlivable for its citizens. It derives its international legitimacy from the fact that the Esad regime invited it.

The justification Iran puts forward is defending a line of resistance against Zionism. But in the course of this defense it does nothing other than cause Zionism to be fortified even further, while at the same time being a supporter, indeed itself an implementer, of the practices of the regime that have made Syria unlivable for its own citizens. It too derives its international legitimacy from having been invited by the massacring Esad, who in fact has no moral legitimacy left.

As for the ABD, although it came with a moral justification based on a strong international alliance, such as the overthrow of Esad, who has committed crimes against humanity, and the creation of an environment in which the Syrian people could live free and humanely on their own land, it soon forgot its reason for coming and took refuge in another justification. This justification was the DEAŞ threat. How could DEAŞ threaten the ABD from 5000 thousand miles away? And how many Syrian refugees have arrived at the borders of the ABD because of this threat so far?

On the contrary, in trying to deal with the DAEŞ threat and to uproot the organization from the places where it had settled, the ABD also uprooted the civilian population living there, burned and destroyed their cities and made them unlivable. It killed more civilians than terrorists. The civilian population, who could no longer live there, headed for Lebanon, Jordan, above all Turkey, and, for those who found a door, the road to Europe. Even if we agree with the ABD's justification of fighting terror, it is clearly seen that this fight has produced more problems than it has solved. Moreover, the ABD does not take responsibility for any of the problems it has produced.

Now, the greatest human rights violations have been committed, and are being committed, in the area allocated to the PYD forces, which it tries to protect because it got their help against DAEŞ. More Arabs and Kurds have been deported by the PYD militants it supports itself than Esad deported. For it to express concern about human rights and harm to civilians over the operation Turkey is carrying out is a complete example of shamelessness.

Turkey is not like other countries. The Syrian people and the Kurdish people there are a part of Turkey's own flesh. They are a part not of Turkey's interest but of its concern.

The practices in the Euphrates Shield and Olive Branch operations that Turkey carried out earlier are plain to see. Leave aside what Russia, Iran and the Esad regime have done; they cannot even be compared with what the ABD did in Raqqa and other regions. In the liberated areas life continues, reviving even more than where it left off.

Ah, if only the ABD were really concerned about civilian deaths and human rights violations in Syria. This would only make us glad, and rest assured, despite everything it has done, we would simply respect this sensitivity. But the fact that it distorts the facts in expressing it shows that this sensitivity is being used only inconsistently and wastefully.

In short, Russia, the ABD and Iran do not take responsibility for any of the problems produced by their presence in Syria. On the contrary, the problems they produced are loaded onto others, in the first degree Turkey.

In Syria, what concerns them is only interests. Turkey, however, has a concern; it is directly affected by every development in Syria. Although it has so far never been directly involved in Syria, it has not avoided taking responsibility for the problems that have emerged.

In return, proceeding from the view that this situation is unsustainable, it has been in search of lasting, sustainable solutions in Syria. From the very beginning it advocated creating a safe zone inside Syria under international protection. This would have been, at the least, an area within Syria where those fleeing the regime's oppression could take refuge, and it would have prevented problems from being carried further into other countries.

Turkey is not after an interest in Syria; it is after solving the problems produced by greedy fights over interests. It is the only country that proposes concrete solutions to create the conditions in which the whole Syrian people can live comfortably in their own country. The solutions it proposes are not accepted, because nobody is in search of a solution. Whatever the cost to the Syrian people of the continuation of the lack of a solution, nobody cares. But Turkey cares, because when Syria burns, Turkey's own life is hurt.