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Background: On March 4, the article written by George Soros titled “Europe must stand with Turkey over Putin’s war crimes in Syria” was published in Financial Times. Although George Soros is fighting for democracy all over the world, there were no commentaries allowed under his article in FT.

As we stated in the previous article about Syria, we believe that it was the Turkish President R. T. Erdogan who from the very beginning supported the movement of Arab spring in the Middle East and Northern Africa. This movement caused the fall of authoritarian regimes in the region as well as it led to chaos and civil wars there. One of the regimes which has survived was the regime of Assad in Syria, but the price for that was more than high. Millions of displaced people who lost their homes, thousands of dead, chaos, ongoing civil war and very bad futute prospects for many families and young people from Syria. In this situation every regional power whether it was Turkey, Iran, Russia and even the superpower USA tried to leverage their interests in Syria. Turkey has already launched three big military operations and practically occupied some territories of Syria. But it seems (to some politicians/financists?) that the only country which should carry the responsibility for the civil war, atrocities, migration and humanitarian crisis in Syria is Russia. This is the way Mr. George Soros sees the world policy…

If we carefully look at the article of Mr. Soros we could unexpectedly find out that the message he gives to the public differs from the facts mentioned in the supporting links he gave. Just look at the example. Mr. Soros in his article claims that according to the United Nations about 10 schools were targeted in a day including kindergartens (cited from the article on Financial times, link here ). When we open the link we see no evidence that the bombing was carried out by Russian air force or any evidence that the aim of the bombing were kindergartens. We would definitely welcome more information proving the facts mentioned in the article, otherwise we cannot consider it as a serious analytical material.

Whether it was done deliberately or not, Mr. Soros did not even mention in his article that the highest representatives of the EU were very angry at Erdogan’s latest decision to open his home country’s borders for migrants escaping to Europe. Mr. Soros calls for the EU to stand with Turkey against Russia, but he forgets to say that it was Turkey that violated the agreement on migrants (signed with the EU in 2016) by opening its borders. There would have been no migrants at all from Syria, if Arab Spring had not been supported by external powers including Turkey. We understand well, that Russia as other players in the region have their own interests in Syria, nevertheless, putting blame on the crisis there exlusively on Moscow seems to us as cynical. Every country sending its troops, tanks, air forces on the territory of a sovereign state (without any legitimisation of a ruling regime) should be aware of the fact that it carries its part of responsibility for the bad things which could happen and which actually happened. We still remember the slaughter of Kurdish people by Turkish forces after the US troops left Syria in 2019. Mr. Soros has evidently a short memory.

What is your take? What do you think about puting blame on war crimes in Syria on Russia?