In Istanbul
Six hours of negotiations to silence arms. By signing a ceasefire agreement on Idlib in northwestern Syria on Thursday evening, Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdogan agreed to a truce that should, for a time, limit the bloodshed and the humanitarian catastrophe at the origin of a cynical migratory blackmail from Ankara to Europe.
But will a few words scratched on a piece of paper suffice to cure the ills of a Syrian population which has suffered, for more than nine years, the lightning of Bashar al-Assad, supported by its Russian and Iranian allies? "It is a decoy," laments the Syrian journalist Nour Adam, a survivor of the siege of Ghouta, in the suburbs of Damascus. "These truces, " he says, " never worked. Whether in Ghouta, or in the former rebel strongholds of Daraya and East Aleppo, they were systematically raped by renewed bombing, causing the deaths of hundreds of civilians. ” Friday afternoon, the Syrian Observatory
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