Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan believes that with the election of Donald Trump, a new way of negotiations will begin, which could lead to quick solutions to the serious problems Turkey is facing, and above all the most difficult, the Kurdish one, the German RTV Deutsche Vele writes today in its service in Greek.
He revealed to Turkish journalists this Sunday, when he was returning from Budapest, that in a telephone conversation he had invited the future president of the USA to visit Turkey and that he hoped he would come.
Turkish and international media report that the future American leadership wants to withdraw the American forces that are in Syria and have been cooperating with the Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) since 2015, in order to prevent the activities of the Islamic State (ISIS).
The well-trained US-trained Kurdish army, which forms the military wing of the Kurdish Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, holds about 25 percent of Syria's territory. But for Turkey, the SDF is nothing more than an extension of the PKK, a Kurdish secessionist organization it considers terrorist, which plots against Turkey and is often attacked by the Turkish military across the border.
Rumors about the withdrawal of the Americans intensified after a televised interview on Friday by Robert Kennedy Jr., one of Trump's closest people, who revealed what the future president told him about Syria a few days ago.
"Trump took a piece of paper and drew a map of the Middle East and wrote the number of troops in each country. He specifically looked at the border between Syria and Turkey and said, 'We have 500 people on the border between Syria and Turkey and they are in a small camp that is being bombed. "Turkey has 750.000 troops and Syria has 250.000. If they turn against each other, they will catch us in the middle," Kennedy said.
He added that Trump asked an American general: "What will happen to these 500 people?", and the general replied: "They will become cannon fodder", to which Trump said: "Get them out of there!", said Kennedy.
There is no doubt, Deutsche Welle writes, that if Trump withdraws American forces from Syria, it will make the Turkish president very happy.
Erdogan has the same optimism regarding the Ukrainian issue. He told reporters that this could be resolved "very easily", recalling Ankara's role as a broker between Russia and Ukraine regarding the 2022 agreement on grain exports.
But, according to Doce Vela, Erdogan's optimism will end there, because he will face difficulties on the Gaza issue if Trump immediately pushes through a peace plan that will likely favor not the Palestinian side, but Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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