Do you seriously expect that Turkey can remove Assad from the seat, short of all out war? Yes. Accept the fact that Assad will be there for many years to come, and Turkey will pay the price of being on the opposite side by new generations of Syrians hating the guts of Turks. The other choice is neighbouring a PKK state on your borders. The foreign policy is based on capabilities and realities, not emotions and wishes. The current mess we are in is due to the fact of acting on emotions and wishes. Turkey under the leadership of Erdoğan made a bet against Assad to the detriment of Syria's destruction. Can you elaborate what did we gain by prolonging the war based on personal vengeance against Assad and stubbornness to deny the reality, resulting the immense destruction of Syria as a state?
Seriously stfu, I’m fed up of low life leftist dribble on Syria, you care about Assad’s Syria more then Turkey lol, your all Assad apologists and don’t mind a butcher on our doorstep simply because ideology, no different then islamists who don’t mind ISIS scums, you never address the years of support Assad’s Syria gave to PKK and act as if everything was roses and honey before the war. The years of oppression Baathist Arabs gave Turkmens before the war.
About hating Turks? Baathists and Alawite Syrians always hates Turks, get your history in check first, you have no idea of even the demographics of the area, they would prefer Israelis to Turks. Have a look around the forum, what do all Arab nationalists, salafists, wahhabists have in common? A hatred for Turks and Persians they would open all 3 holes for Americans and Israelis.
Syria mess would have happened if Turkey intervened or not, one minute you complain about Turkey not intervening the next you complain that Turkey has got involved. You think Turkey has the luxury not to take a side on a crises on its doorstep while countries from 1000s of miles away do to protect and mold the future in their favour?
Why did Assad support PKK before the war? How could Turkey stop the flow of refugees? How could Turkey stay silent? How could Turkey stop the flow of 100s of American and European agents flowing into Syria? How could Turkey predict the war would turn around when Assad’s own palace became a front line? How could Turkey predict Russians and Iranians would throw everything behind Assad?
Just stfu, you should have been born in Latakia not Turkey. Cut your crap in using this as a cheap jab on Erdogan, have some respect for the Turkish army at least (if your even a real Türk, doubt it) no one gives a f*ck what you think.