Trump Accuses Turkey of Toppling Bashar Assad
The newly elected US President has named the culprit behind the latest events in Syria.
Donald Trump said that Türkiye was behind the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad.
The politician spoke about this topic during his first press conference after winning the November elections, TASS reports.
Trump claims that Ankara and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan personally are behind the new government in Syria.
The American politician called his colleague "a very smart man."
Trump said Türkiye had wanted to overthrow Assad and his government for "a thousand years" and had achieved its goal.
According to him, the people who have now taken control of Syria are working in the interests of the Turkish side.
Official Ankara, however, denies any involvement in Assad’s overthrow.
The country's Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan insisted that Türkiye was not involved in the Syrian opposition operation that recently led to the collapse of the Assad administration.
