Erdoğan warns against attempts to stir sectarian unrest in Syria

Terrorist acts, carried out by remnants of the old regime in Syria, are being framed in a manner that creates a sinister and dirty plot to undermine the brotherhood of our nation,

Erdoğan stated

A spark of unrest based on sectarian grounds is being attempted in Syria where 14 years of oppression have been ended with the revolution of Dec. 8,

Erdoğan said at his ruling the Justice and Development Party (AKP) parliamentary group meeting on March 12.

My friends will meet with them. If a request for an appointment is made, I will give it,

Erdoğan said

The full implementation of the agreement reached yesterday will contribute to Syria’s security and peace. The real winners will be all of our Syrian brothers,

he stated

Beyond positioning Türkiye as a stabilizing force in the region, we have transformed the country into an epicenter of peace diplomacy,

he said

Syria’s new leaders promised to break with the horrors of the past, but grave abuses on a staggering scale are being reported against predominantly Alawite Syrians in the coastal region and elsewhere in Syria,

HRW’s Deputy Regional Director Adam Coogle said in a statement

The new Syria is determined to enshrine justice and the rule of law, protect the rights and freedoms of its citizens, prevent unlawful revenge and guarantee that there is no impunity,

Yasser al-Farhan, the spokesperson of the new fact-finding committee, told a news conference in Damascus on Tuesday

Many of the cases documented were of summary executions. They appear to have been carried out on a sectarian basis,

Al-Kheetan told reporters

In a number of extremely disturbing instances, entire families – including women, children and individuals hors de combat – were killed, with predominantly Alawite cities and villages targeted in particular,

UN human rights office spokesperson Thameen Al-Kheetan said on Tuesday

Government action to protect civilians and prosecute perpetrators of indiscriminate shootings, summary executions, and other grave crimes must be swift and unequivocal,

he added

The surge in disinformation and hate speech online is both fueling the violence and deepening divisions,

Razan Rashidi, director of UK-based advocacy organization, The Syria Campaign, told DW

I trust my leadership very much, and they are the ones who verify the news,

the person explained

Please, we want the shooting to stop so we can bury the bodies that are filling up the streets,

somebody else from Jableh, a town near the coastal city of Latakia, where the violence that killed about 800 people over the weekend apparently began

We observed a significant surge,

Zouhir al-Shimale, a researcher and communications manager for Verify-Sy, told DW

This was evident when figures like Elon Musk and [US pundit] Tucker Carlson amplified outright disinformation about Syria, leveraging X's network to promote these narratives,

al-Shimale adds

They give me the posts, and I publish,

the social media user told DW

I am in Jableh. Nothing is wrong. There's no shooting,

another man wrote, adding to the confusion

They're burning the village now,

one Syrian user reported on Facebook

Most of those who work in this field are unemployed, or disabled as a result of fighting, or women whose husbands died in the war,

the person continued

When the remnants (of al-Assad’s forces) took control of cities and villages, in a matter of hours … they started killing and shooting,

he told Euronews