Turkey's Entry into the Syrian Conflict

The Iranian tango with Turkey has produced some unpredictable events with the intrusion of Turkey inside Syria. But I think, it is also the decision of Bashar al Assad that Turkey enters along the side the of the FSA. 

Iran, Syria and Turkey seem to have understood something that makes them have one common interest in this region.

They agree that their survival as states is dependent on the survival of their regimes over the territories they call their states. The two regimes that are struggling with their own legitimacy are the Iranian rule of the Wilayat Al-Faqih and the Muslim Brotherhood governing Sunni Turkey and Shi'a Iran.

The Saudis are already weakened. They lost the public of both sects. The Iranian Turkish unity is against ISIS. Saudi was bankrupt in Yemen and stripped in Syria.

The question that Turkey poses to Iran is called Hezbollah. This is why the Lebanese Hezbollah should leave the war because Iran will dispose of the militant proxy.

The regime will not come out of this war to the same position it occupied two years ago. The death toll, the refugee crisis and the human catastrophe means it is time to get a grip of actuality.

Turkey's entry on the side of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) is designed to give the rebels a strong base to negotiate with the regime. Consequently, reducing the negotiating powers of the regime, and equating him with the rebels.

The picture as it is unfolding is making a spectacle of the players in the civil war between the government and the rebels. The government lost its legitimacy but did not collapse. 

So far, the government invited the Russian, Hezbollah and Iran on its side. Turkey is creating a balance to the disadvantage of the the survival of the government and in the advantage of maintaining the territorial integrity of Syria.

In all this Hezbollah will not be a party to the negotiations. They are simply not Syrian. The question of Hezbollah would become the central question in any Turkish and Iranian alliance.