[OPINION] Erdoğan's anti-Assad policies serve autonomous Kurdish rule in Syria - Turkish Minute

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : The eastern region is important for Tehran to establish a land route from Iran across Iraq and Syria and into Lebanon.
58% : Turkey and Iran want to improve their commercial ties with Russia.
56% : Turkish media reported that Ankara and Tehran signed a total of eight agreements in the areas of trade, infrastructure, security and sports, with Erdoğan confirming that the countries plan to increase the bilateral trade volume to $30 billion.
47% : He also discussed Ukraine's grain exports through the Black Sea with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who made his long-awaited official visit to Tehran.
47% : Iranian-backed forces have been supporting Assad's forces, while Iran has also been focused on influencing local Syrians.
43% : Khamenei tells Erdoğan offensive in Syria would be 'detrimental' Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi hosted his Russian and Turkish counterparts on Tuesday in Tehran for the 7th trilateral Astana Summit to discuss the latest developments in Syria.
42% : Iran is also trying to take advantage of the security gap in Syria as Russian forces remain focused on Ukraine.
41% : Iran and Turkey are important allies to Russia as both of these Muslim countries have refused to join Western sanctions on Russia and have kept in close contact with Moscow since Russia launched its war on Ukraine.
38% : Turkey opposes Bashar al-Assad, while Moscow and Tehran back the Syrian president.
37% : Tehran's rapprochement with Russia has more to do with Western sanctions on Iran.
36% : Biden's first stop on his maiden trip to the Middle East since taking office was Israel, presumably to assure Jewish leaders that the United States will not allow Tehran to destabilize the region.
36% : "We will not walk away and leave a vacuum to be filled by China, Russia or Iran," Biden said at the Gulf Cooperation Council summit in Jeddah.
35% : The Turkish, Russian and Iranian leaders in their trilateral statement following the seventh meeting in Tehran said they "rejected all attempts to create new realities on the ground ... including illegitimate self-rule initiatives" in the war-torn Arab country of Syria.
33% : The group is listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the US and European Union.
26% : Iran, however, opposes Turkey's operation in Syria since Tehran is fighting for its own influence in Syria.
23% : Washington, the European Union, Russia and Iran are all currently united against Turkey's planned military operation against Kurds in Syria.
13% : Iran has its own Kurdish problem as millions of Kurds live in northwest Iran, and Iranian Kurdish rebels have been fighting Tehran for decades to establish independent Kurdish rule within Iran.

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