End of Baath regime in Syria also Türkiye's victory: President Erdogan

By Esra Tekin

ISTANBUL (AA) - The end of the Baath regime in Syria is also Türkiye's victory, said President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday.

"The end of Baath regime's tyranny is the victory of our Syrian brothers, and it is also our victory as their neighbors," Erdogan said.

Touching on the terrorism in the region, Erdogan said that the era of exploiting the region by using terrorist organizations has come to an end, adding the period of using terrorism as a weapon, and tool is over.

Bashar Assad, Syria’s leader for nearly 25 years, fled to Russia after anti-regime groups took control of Damascus on Dec. 8, ending the Baath Party regime, which had been in power since 1963.