Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said that Ankara is waiting for the right conditions to reopen its embassy in the Syrian capital, Damascus.
This came in response to a journalist’s question on Tuesday in the capital, Ankara, about the timing of reopening the Turkish embassy in Damascus, following the fall of the Bashar al-Assad regime.
Turkey suspended the activities of its embassy in Damascus in March 2012 due to the deterioration of the security situation in the country against the backdrop of the outbreak of the Syrian revolution and the regime’s suppression of it with military force.
Regarding the objectives of the Israeli aggression on Syria, Fidan said that Israel “wants to render all the equipment and supplies that the current administration (in Syria) possesses unusable.”
Earlier on Tuesday, Reuters quoted two regional security sources and an unnamed Syrian security source as saying that “an Israeli military incursion into southern Syria has reached about 25 kilometers southwest of the capital, Damascus.”
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The agency added, quoting the Syrian source, that “Israeli forces reached the Qatana area, which is located ten kilometers inside Syrian territory, east of the demilitarized zone separating the occupied Golan Heights from Syria.”
Israel took advantage of the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime on Sunday to expand its occupation of the Syrian Golan Heights by occupying the buffer zone on the border.
The Israeli Broadcasting Corporation also announced on Tuesday that the Israeli Navy destroyed the Syrian army 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.
On Sunday morning, Syrian opposition factions entered the capital Damascus and took control of it, with the withdrawal of regime forces from public institutions and streets, thus ending a 61-year era of the bloody Baath Party regime and 53 years of rule by the Assad family.
