T\u00fcrkiye will not allow extremists to drag Syria back into chaos and instability, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday after a suicide attack killed 22 at a Damascus church.<\/p>\n
“We will never allow our neighbor and brother Syria… be dragged into a new environment of instability through proxy terrorist organizations,” he said, vowing to support the new government’s fight against such groups.<\/p>\n
He did not explain what he meant by “proxy” groups but vowed that T\u00fcrkiye would “continue to support the Syrian government\u2019s fight against terrorism”, AFP reported.<\/p>\n
The Damascus government blamed Sunday night’s shooting and suicide attack — the first of its kind in the Syrian capital since the fall of strongman Bashar al-Assad six months ago — on ISIS militants.<\/p>\n
It cast the attack as a bid to “undermine national coexistence and to destabilize the country”, which only began emerging from the post-civil war chaos after Assad’s ouster six months ago.<\/p>\n
T\u00fcrkiye was a key backer of the HTS who ousted Assad under the leadership of Ahmed al-Sharaa, now the interim president, and has repeatedly offered its operational and military to fight ISIS and other militant threats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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