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Presidents Obama and Putin Discussed the Syrian Crisis at U.N.

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September 30, 2015

U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin shared very different opinions regarding the Syrian crisis, this Monday, September 28th.

The Syrian political crisis and the massive migration it has produced, was the central focus of the opening day at the United Nations General Assembly.

During his speech, President Obama said the United States was prepared to work with any nation, “including Russia and Iran”, to solve the Syrian conflict. Obama motivated all the states in the United Nations General Assembly to work together to end the war and help the victims.

President Putin’s support of the Syrian government was categorical, as a way to avoid the expansion of the Islamic State. In his speech, the Russian president said it would be “an enormous mistake to refuse to cooperate with the Syrian government”, which is fighting against the Islamic State and other terrorist organizations.

President Obama also stated that the United States is increasing the number of refugees as a way to respond to the many families that need help right now and that cannot wait for a solution to the Syrian conflict. The government is working with universities and NGO’s in order to support the refugees coming into the United States.

After a 95-minute private meeting with President Obama, President Putin qualified the encounter as “very constructive, business-like and surprisingly frank”, with a lot of common ground, but also some well-known differences. One of those differences is the future of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, and whether he should leave power or not.

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Ertan Arkoç

Interesting story indeed.

Two or three major issues are not being discussed very much.

First of all, a chess-like Ukraine’s small invasion move by Russia after the oil-price move by USA.

Secondly, ISIS move which ultimately gonna tighten up China’s hand for getting oil from middle-east. Meanwhile USA turned up the heat on USD for at the least the last 8-9 months. By doing that, they pressured EU on on Greece’s economical crisis. There was/is no need for FED to increase interest on USD. But there ll be another interest increase on December in my opinion. And then we’ll all see Spain, Italy and Turkey will take the economical falls.

So, anyways. Al-Assad seems like to take the fall out of this.

If Putin and Obama comes to common grounds, which i believe thats whats going to happen; there will be a brand new country for the Kurdish people which will be located on the north side of Syria+Iraq. But the Kurdish leader Barzani, Bassar al-Assad, Recep Tayyip Erdogan; those leaders will be the ones to be discussed among the USA, Russia, China and Iran. I dont actually see Turkey has any political power over the area right now. Especially after Kobane attacks.

Arabs standing still and waiting for the US to make a move. They let the US to decrease oil prices as low as 40$. Now they are waiting for the compensation move from the States. That’s the reason Saudi Arabia didnt invite a single refugee from Syria. They’re just waiting to get the side with the upper handed party. Because they already helped the US to pressure Iran+Russia+China with the low oil prices.

Iran has different motivations for the area. They see that they will eventually need a buffer zone between them and the upcoming Kurdish country. The non-governed north Iraq was that buffer zone. But if a government establishes there, the Kurds in Iran might cause internal problems like Turkey having for over three decades.

After the alleged gold smuggling surfaced in 2014 from Iran to Turkey, US lost a bit of trust Erdogan’s government. That’s the reason Turkey is getting closer to Russia and Iran axis.

Wow, that’s a lot of politics for now. May be i can write some more some other time. Its never enough when it comes to middle east. A couple sentences are not even enough to scratch the surface. And we didnt even talk about Israel, Palestine, England, Germany, Yemen, Arab Spring, etc.

Take care for now.