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Istanbul,.- Turkey is ready to "intervene" in Syria if it sees that the conflicts between different local populations threaten a territorial partition of the country, Foreign Minister of Turkey, Hakan Fidan, warned this Tuesday, in apparent reference to the clashes with the Druze minority of Al Sueida.
"We have been interested from the beginning in what is happening south of our country. The events have taken on a new dimension with the intervention of Israel, carried out under the pretext of protecting the Druze," said Fidan at a press conference with his Salvadoran counterpart, Alexandra Hill Tinoco, in Ankara.
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The minister accused Israel of "trying to sabotage with all these interventions the peace, stability and security of Syria", referring to the Israeli bombings against Syrian government forces that were heading to Al-Suwayda to intervene in the conflict between Druze militias and Bedouin clans. The Druze groups that dominate the city of Al-Suwayda, located in the extreme south of Syria, have so far opposed ceding control of security in their region to the forces of the new government, established after the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad's regime last autumn. Ankara has repeatedly expressed its strong support for Ahmed al Sharaa's government, and Fidan insisted today that "everything can be discussed, and with all groups", but that "no group should move towards the partition" of Syria. "But if you go further, if you use violence to fragment and destabilize (Syria), we will consider it a direct threat to our own national security and will intervene," warned the head of Turkish diplomacy. "Except for the partition, speak of what you want, ask what you want. We will help in everything we can, but if you go further, we will consider it a threat," the minister insisted.
