Solution Options in the Syrian Crisis
No matter which method is chosen for Syria, it will be neither rational nor realistic to expect a miraculous solution for the Syrian crisis.
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The Syrian Crisis and the World
There is really only one question: Is this a Syrian crisis or a global political depression?
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In the multi-phased peace process, we face an entity that keeps employing unreasonable provocations in the withdrawal phase, the first leg of a road map on which their leader proceeds through consensus.
A combination of obligations and concerns will determine the scope of the possible intervention in Syria.
Following the use of chemical weapons by Bashar al Assad, who has violated all the red lines in international politics, the US and others have started to discuss a possible military intervention in Syria, but this is mostly because they have concerns about maintaining the legitimacy of the international system.
Although the use of chemical weapons in Syria has forced the United States (US) administration to take action, it does not seem to make a big difference in the US attitude towards the issue in terms of strategy.
End of the Proxy War?
Having silently stood by in the face of the Assad regimes numerous atrocities over the past two years, all global actors reacted to Assads use of chemical weapons against the civilian population. In this sense, none but Assad himself will be responsible for a possible foreign intervention.
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A New Period in Islamic Politics
The West still does not trust the political actors holding Islamic traditions in the Middle East, and it does not know how to interact with them effectively.
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Despite the arrival of United Nations (UN) inspectors at Syria to investigate the claims that the Bashar al Assad regime uses chemical weapons against civilians and opponents, the Assad forces coordinated a chemical attack against the East Ghouta area in the Damascus suburb today and that has opened a new round of discussions about the track record of chemical weapons use in Syria.
SETA Foreign Policy Director Ufuk Ulutaş in an assessment to the Anadolu Agency (AA) said that the silence of the United Nations (UN) and the international community legitimizes massacres committed by the Bashar al Assad regime.
If Putin has his Assad, the United States has its Sisi. Russia dubbed the massacres in Syria fight against terror while the U.S. labeled the coup in Egypt democratization.
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.
The President of the SETA Foundation Taha Özhan said that Turkey offers a road map for Egypt.
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.
In the last few years, the Kurdish alienation has deepened more with the cunning of the PKK-PYD and the support of the Arab nationalism that has risen in the region with the occupation of Iraq.
This is a complex conflict; it is not simply black and white. In order to fully understand what is happening in Syria, every aspect of the conflict must be considered including the actors both inside and outside the state.
