Erdoğan pledges full Turkish support for Syria and Palestinian freedom

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Tuesday reaffirmed Türkiye's full support for Syria and its people in their efforts toward reconstruction, recovery, and rebuilding, stressing that this assistance will continue "with all means."

"We are pleased to see the Syrian people striving to rebuild their country over the past year despite the hardships and devastation left by the Assad dictatorship," Erdoğan said in a statement while delivering a speech at the Human Rights Day event in the Turkish capital Ankara.

Erdoğan added that the smooth implementation of Syria's March 10 agreement will disrupt the plans of malign actors seeking to exploit a weak, divided, and unstable Syria.

Erdoğan emphasized that Türkiye and the Turkish nation fully support Syria and the Syrian people's efforts for reconstruction, recovery, and rebuilding with all means.

The Turkish president also added that the oppressed people in Palestine "will see their patience crowned with victory, and freedom and peace will come with a sovereign Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital."

On March 10, an agreement was announced by the Syrian presidency that envisioned integrating the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) -- dominated by the YPG/PKK terror group -- into Syria's state apparatus, stressing the country's territorial integrity and rejecting any separatist designs.