A few weeks later, Mr al-Shaibani resurfaced in Damascus in the cabinet of Syria’s new interim government. On January 15th he made an official visit to Turkey, where he had lived for over a ...
“In the north, Turkey and Qatar favored Islamist factions ... that there might be an agreement that … no one would enter Damascus so there could be an agreement on the exit of Bashar Assad ...
Rami, in contrast, lived in constant fear of being kicked out of Turkey. He entered the country 10 years earlier on his Syrian passport and had refused to register as a refugee, as most Syrians ...