The Turkish Foreign Ministry strongly condemned the Israeli incursion into Syrian territory, which violates the 1974 disengagement agreement.
The Turkish Foreign Ministry explained in a statement on Tuesday that “in this sensitive period when the possibility of achieving peace and stability that the Syrian people have been yearning for for many years has become apparent, Israel is once again showing its occupation mentality.”
The statement stressed Turkey’s support for Syria’s sovereignty, political unity and territorial integrity.
Israel took advantage of the Syrian opposition factions’ overthrow of the Bashar al-Assad regime on Sunday to expand its occupation of the Syrian Golan Heights by occupying the buffer zone on the border.
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In the words of its Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel declared the “collapse” of the 1974 disengagement agreement on the basis of which this zone was established.
The Israeli Broadcasting Corporation also announced on Tuesday that the Israeli Navy destroyed the Syrian army’s fleet last night in the ports of Latakia and Bayda.
On Monday evening, an Israeli security source said that Tel Aviv had attacked more than 250 targets inside Syrian territory since the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime, including military bases, fighter jets and missile systems.
At dawn on Sunday, Syrian opposition factions entered the capital Damascus and took control of it, with regime forces withdrawing from public institutions and streets, thus ending a 61-year reign of the bloody Baath Party regime and 53 years of rule by the Assad family.
