SETA presents the analyses of SETA experts on Syria in order to better understand Syrian civil war which cost more than 100 thousand lives, injured more than 2 million people and displaced many others.

At this point, Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Sisi himself might be the most irrelevant person in the country. He was not a notable actor before and he shall not be a notable actor in the future.

The “Assad-Sisi axis” has become one of the paradigms explaining very well the global crisis that we have gone through as far as its actors and global repercussions are concerned.

If one desires to strengthen meritocracy and quality, it is necessary to revise the entire legislation which was drafted with institutional bigotry by “bureaucrats who were unable to be appointed although they wished for it.”

Hezbollah will face its real crisis when it completes its transformation from a respected regional actor to a lonely actor.

What Russia understands from a political solution is the Kadirov model and what Iran understands from the political solution is a scenario of “forever-negotiation-nihilism” as it is the case in its nuclear program. Is either to propose a realistic political solution to the Syrian crisis?

Turkey is the only actor that stands to spoil the neo Sykes-Picot. It appears that it will be impossible for al-Assad to regain his power in Syria as long as Turkey maintains its position.

Whatever happens, relations between the two countries cannot and will not reach the high level of cooperation between Turkey’s pro-coup elites and Israel in the late 1990s.

On March 22, a panel on the Syrian Revolution was organized and hosted by the Foundation for Political, Economic and Social Research (SETA) in Ankara. Panelists were two leading figures of the Syrian opposition.

The question of what kind of a Syria would be formed after the revolution is still a legitimate one for the US, and the US does not want to take action before finding a satisfactory answer in favor of its regional priorities.

Although Assad and the apparatus of security that surrounded him managed to survive, their obstinacy left Syria in ruins.

As long as the U.S. insists on the old order of the Middle East via its support for Israel, it will soon no longer possess the necessary political software to deal with the new Middle East.

If the Kurds want to realize their demand they must first become one of the main actors of the resistance movement to depose al-Assad in a way that does not leave room for doubt.

Another approach to the analysis of the Syrian crisis is to acknowledge the massacres committed by the Assad regime, but in the end, to own up the analyses mentioned above.

The transformation of peaceful protesters into armed revolutionaries was triggered not by choice, but by necessity and obligation.

High-ranking officers who were killed in the blast in Syria also took away the regime’s immunity, the mutual trust of those in the regime’s inner circle and the loyalty of the army.

Syria and Israel are two semi-states which base their identities on pretended hostility.