Revisiting Davutoglu on Syria

Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu spoke for three hours on May 24 to 20 journalists he had invited to a hotel to discuss his Syria policy. He also answered questions about it.

There are two main reasons to examine the minister’s comments, as much as they were reported in newspapers.

The first is that this was the first time he had made such a comprehensive review of the concrete and positive changes of May 16 in the clogged, failed Syria policy that was increasingly becoming a source of instability.

The concrete result of the discussions between Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and President Barack Obama on May 16 at the White House was a change in Turkey’s strident Syria policy.