What if the deadly earthquake that shook Turkey and Syria led to another earthquake, a diplomatic one?
A resumption of relations between Paris and Damascus, interrupted by a decade of repression against its opponents orchestrated by Bashar el-Assad, who finally came to the end.
“Emmanuel Macron thinks that there is a company to rehabilitate Assad led by the Arab allies of France
,
and perhaps soon Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan”
, confided a source at the Élysée, at the end of the week. last, before the earthquake.
“Are we watching the train pass at the risk of being left out of the process?”
, we wonder in the entourage of Emmanuel Macron.
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In recent years, Abu Dhabi, Riyadh and Cairo have indeed reconnected with Damascus, while Jordan, exhausted by the reception of hundreds of thousands of refugees, was building an international roadmap for a rapprochement with Assad.
"Emmanuel Macron has understood that everyone is moving around...
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