Ahmed Al-Sharaa, the head of the Syrian interim government, answered the questions of the media in an interview with the Turkish newspaper Milliyet.
Referring to his presence at the UN General Assembly, he said: This is a turning point. Syria is now part of the international system and integrated with the world.
Regarding relations between Damascus and Tel Aviv, the head of the Syrian interim government said: If you ask me if I trust Israel, no, I do not. Israel's attacks on the presidential and defense ministry buildings were a declaration of war. However, we have no choice but to reach a security agreement with Israel. Whether Israel will adhere to this agreement or not is a separate issue. Syria knows how to fight, but it doesn’t want war anymore. With only four or five days left for talks with Israel on a security mechanism, there were incidents in the Druze region of Sweida, which were a deliberate trap for Damascus.
Turkey may take military action if agreement with Kurds is not reached by December.
He added: “We convinced Turkey not to launch an operation against the Syrian Democratic Forces after Assad’s overthrow and to give the talks a chance. If the integration process is not achieved by December, Turkey may take military action.”
Sharaa said that Damascus is very close to reaching a US-brokered agreement with Israel and that this agreement could be signed in the coming days, adding: “This agreement will be similar to the 1974 agreement, but it certainly does not mean normalization or including Syria in the Abraham Accords.”
In response to a question about the demands of the Syrian Democratic Forces for decentralization, the head of the Syrian interim government also said: Syria is 90 percent decentralized due to Law No. 107. Syrian society is not ready to discuss federal systems and all these demands are actually separatism hidden behind different definitions.
