Author: Ahmet Alioglu

Recently, Israeli warplanes struck targets on the outskirts of the Syrian capital, an act Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu framed as a “surgical warning” against elements allegedly plotting attacks against the Druze minority in nearby Sahnaya. With bluntness, Netanyahu declared the strike an “unmistakable message” to Damascus and its allies: Israel would not stand idly by while threats to the Druze community, with whom it claims to share deep historical ties, fester on Syrian soil. The response from Ankara was swift and scathing. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, never one to mince words, lambasted the strike as “yet another reckless provocation”…