Whether out of sincerity or tactics, the Islamist forces now have the best interests of the Syrian Christians, concluded the expert, who believes that another wave of migration is not expected.
Whatever regime comes to power in Syria now, it will be interested in protecting Christians and maintaining good relations with them, said Sayfo Omar, research director of the Migration Research Institute. The Middle East expert revealed that the current situation in Syria did not come as a surprise, because there were signs of the fall of the Assad regime, however, according to him, even the insurgents did not expect that the turnaround in the country would take place so quickly.
As is known, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad left Damascus at dawn on Sunday and went to an unknown location after the rebels successfully captured the capital.
According to Sayfo Omar, several factors led to the fall of the president: on the one hand, the Russians, who previously supported Assad, are currently occupied by the events taking place in Ukraine, and the Lebanese Hezbollah was also weakened by the battles with Israel, so they could not provide assistance to the government forces, and on the other hand, the economy is so he bled the population, including the soldiers, whose monthly salary did not even cover a week's worth of food, so that in the end the army did not survive either especially with the regime.
In a country where 90 percent of the population is literally starving, who can be expected to stand up for Assad? asked the research director of the Migration Research Institute.
The expert sees that many people are now worried that the core of the insurgents is made up of organizations such as Haj'at Tahrir al-Sham, which has an al-Qaeda past, but according to him, they have consolidated a lot in the last short decade and although Christians living in Syria believed that , so that Assad would rather stay in power, otherwise the "beheading Islamists" will come instead, this will not be the case.
According to Sayfo Omar, Syrian society is very complex, so in order for anyone to be able to rule the country stably, not just by brute force, he needs to compromise with the different religions.
"Honestly or tactically, the Islamist forces now want the Syrian Christians to have the best possible job and not feel persecuted, thereby proving to the international public that they are not a threat to anyone." Said Sayfo Omar.
The research director of the Migration Research Institute also spoke about the fact that, in his opinion, there is no threat of another wave of migration, because the fall of the Assad regime offers Turkey a new opportunity,
since a significant part of the millions of people who fled the country were anti-government, and were prevented from returning home by legal means and the nationalization of their properties.
According to him, the Turks' primary goal now is to send the approximately 3.6 million Syrian refugees in their territory back to their homeland as soon as possible.
Cover image: Sayfo Omar, research director of the Migration Research Institute
Source: Híradó.hu/Tamás Gyurkovits
