{"id":262613,"date":"2016-08-19T09:58:52","date_gmt":"2016-08-19T09:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/turkey-and-iran-reach-agreement-on-conditions-for-syria-peace\/"},"modified":"2016-08-19T09:58:52","modified_gmt":"2016-08-19T09:58:52","slug":"turkey-and-iran-reach-agreement-on-conditions-for-syria-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/turkey-and-iran-reach-agreement-on-conditions-for-syria-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey and Iran Reach Agreement on Conditions for Syria Peace"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n

In a stunning diplomatic surprise, Turkey and Iran have announced a preliminary
\n agreement on fundamental principles for a settlement of the Syrian conflict.<\/p>\n

The dramatic turn in the diplomacy of the Syria War was revealed in Turkish
\n Prime Minister Binali Yildirim\u2019s regular weekly speech to the ruling AKP Party
\n in the parliament and confirmed by a senior Iranian foreign ministry official
\n Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Both Yildirim\u2019s speech and the Iranian corroboration were reported Tuesday
\n by Al-Araby Al-Jadeed and Al-Hayat, Arabic-language newspapers published in
\n London, but the potentially pivotal development has been unreported thus far
\n in Western news media.<\/p>\n

The common approach to a Syria settlement outlined by Turkey and Iran represent
\n what appears to be the first significant diplomatic break in a five-year international
\n conflict on Syria that has been immune from any real peace negotiations up to
\n now. International conferences on Syria under UN auspices have generated no
\n real moves toward compromise.<\/p>\n

The new negotiations between Iran and Turkey are the result of a major policy
\n shift by the government of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan toward diplomatic
\n cooperation with Russia and Iran on Syria and away from alignment with the United
\n States and its Gulf allies Saudi Arabia and Qatar. Turkey has been coordinating
\n military assistance to the armed opposition to the Assad government \u2013 including
\n jihadists and other hardline extremists \u2013 with Saudi Arabia and Qatar since
\n early in the war. However, Erdogan began searching in May for an alternative
\n policy more in line with Turkey\u2019s primary strategic interest in Syria: containing
\n the threat of Kurdish demands for a separate state.<\/p>\n

The announced agreement on broad principles for ending the Syrian crisis is
\n only the beginning of a process of negotiations on the details of a settlement,
\n as Iran\u2019s Deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Jaberi Ansari made clear. \u201cThis agreement
\n on the general lines will contribute to creating an environment suitable to
\n solving the Syrian crisis,\u201d Ansari said, according to Al Hayat.<\/p>\n

It is also possible that Turkey may be planning to use the threat of allying
\n with Russia and Iran on Syria to force the United States to reduce its own reliance
\n on Kurdish forces in Northern Syria \u2013 the main issue dividing US and Turkish
\n policies toward the conflict. But Yildirim had already hinted last month \u2013
\n before the failed military coup in Turkey and the launching of a new offensive
\n by al-Qaeda\u2019s al-Nusra Front around and in Aleppo \u2013 at Turkey\u2019s intention to
\n revise its policy toward Syria in order to prevent Kurdish forces in Syria from
\n establishing their own mini-state.<\/p>\n

Yildirim said in his speech Tuesday that the solution to the Syrian crisis
\n would require \u201ctwo basic conditions: first to preserve the territorial…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In a stunning diplomatic surprise, Turkey and Iran have announced a preliminary agreement on fundamental principles for a settlement of the Syrian conflict. The dramatic turn in the diplomacy of the Syria War was revealed in Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim\u2019s regular weekly speech to the ruling AKP Party in the parliament […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-262613","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}