Syria and Turkey are two different branches of trees, but united by an earthquake.
It seems that the political discrimination that we observe through the vaccines against the covid-19 of Chinese, Russian and American origin, is now presenting itself again in Turkey and Syria, when the death counter advances minute by minute.
Dogmas are not dispelled even in tragedies: it would seem that the life of a Turkish citizen has a higher value than that of a Syrian.
Turkey is embraced by the West and Syria is despised. Russia and Iran shake hands with Syria, but view Erdogan with suspicion. President Joe Biden offers Turkey whatever support it needs.
Syria has been suffering social earthquakes for 12 years. A civil war has displaced or expelled half of its population. Indeed, of its 23 million inhabitants, nearly 12 million have left their homes. Between 2011 and 2021, 306,887 civilians have died as a result of the war. Its president, dictator Bashar al-Assad, has been bolted to the chair since the day a young Tunisian was burned to death in protest at being robbed of his fruit stall. The Arab Spring began.
Turkey is not governed by a democrat. The autocrat Recep Tayyip Erdogan has broken with the balance of power in his country to enjoy family immunity against acts of corruption; he has eliminated free speech; has declared war on the Kurds, whether or not they are members of the PKK; and he is bringing Sweden and Finland to their knees by showing them the key to NATO membership.
“Syria remains a dark area, from a legal and diplomatic point of view,” says Marc Schakal, head of the Syria-focused program of Doctors Without Borders (MSF), urging aid to be sent “as soon as possible” (AFP agency).
The Syrian ambassador to the UN, Bassam Sabbagh, asked for help from abroad, but put one condition: that this assistance be distributed from inside the country, under government control. The situation of the country is not to set conditions.
As far as Mexico is concerned, the AMLO government has not asked Isabel Arvide to resign because of an eschatological tweet with which she washes her hands of a request made by a group of moles. “I’m not the instance,” replied the bureaucrat whose main trait in the face of the earthquake is indolence.
The presidential candidate Marcelo Ebrard, from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, has posted a collection of photographs of dogs that travel to Turkey on his Twitter account.
So the things that an earthquake also collapses.
@faustopretelin
