Self-Confession and Self-Destruction

The announcement of the General Command of Turkish Armed Forces is interesting, according to which, Ankara refuses the destruction of the Turkish investigative aircraft by Syrian Force.
Damascus arraigned, threatened with war and provided the Syrian border with troops and now this announcement is under criminal investigation.
Meanwhile, Ankara and Damascus would make contradictory announcements, not about the side which caused the destruction of the aircraft, but about the justifications of the causes of distraction. While Ankara claimed that the airplane had been crashed in the borders of international waters, Damascus continued to announce that the Turkish airplane broke into the country’s airspace. Even words of condolences were announced by Syria on the occasion of the occurred.
If the Denial was by Damascus, it’d have some logic in it. Now the arraigned side, the claimer that that its airplane has been destructed in the international territories, denies its already-made announcements and takes the responsibility from Syria.
What can be inferred? It’s either that Turkish airplane has been undergone a self-destruction because of some disorder, or it’s been a victim of Turkish antiaircraft. It’s interesting that there is no response from Syria yet towards this denial of Ankara.
Recently the results of social statistics were being announced in Turkey, to emphasize that the majority of answers of the poll doesn’t share the policy of Turkish authorities towards Syria. This denial of Turkish Ministry of defense can also be contradicted to Erdogan’s policy..
On the face, this denial can be interpreted by inter-Turkish contradictions and, concerning the campaign, also the publication of such polls. It is possible that this contradiction is a result of inter-Turkish agreement by the distribution of roles between military and political wings.
The approach of not excluding this hypothesis will be more justified, if we recall the official announcement of Ankara directed to the first diplomat in which the yelling official clearly confessed the failure of Ankara’s policy towards Syria, particularly towards overthrowing the regime.
It’s too early to confirm whether it is the Russian factor or the possibility of Kurdish movement make Ankara to register such a withdrawal . However it’s not necessary for such denials, withdrawals or confessions of failures to clarify the further steps. On the contrary. They may lead to misunderstanding on the threshold of preparing provocations.
In this concern Syrian restraint or silence towards all this gives self-explanation. Still it’s clear that a withdrawal is noticed between the West, especially the narrowing of the circle by USA, and Russian-Chinese veto. Is it a fake withdrawal? Of course.

Shahan Gantaharyan
“Azdak” editor in chief