The Al-Assad dynasty collapsed. The Assad term started with Hafez al-Assad and continued with son Bashar al-Assad. The cards will be reshuffled in the new era.
The Baath Party administration in Syria was established with the 1963 Syrian coup. The Assad regime began with Hafez al-Assad, who came to power in 1971 with the Baath Party administration and the country’s presidency through elections. The Party and Assad regime in Syria, which was governed by a presidential regime, ended on December 8.
The process that led to the end of the regime emerged with the demands for change that began with the Arab Spring in 2011. It remains unclear how power sharing will take shape in the new era. The U.S. may have a say in Syria’s future by maintaining military power but Russia seems to put a distance to the upcoming negotiations. Syria’s neighbours, Israel and Turkiye, may influence the new era. Iran, which supported the former regime and Iraq, which has not formed unity within the country, may not appear on the table.
It will be clear in the coming period how the terrorist organisation PKK / YPG will be affected by this power vacuum. The geopolitical balance in the region, which involves Israel’s ongoing war in Gaza, may shift depending on how negotiations between sides unfold and what international involvement emerges.
On the other hand, the Reuters news agency announced that the plane that Syria’s ousted president Bashar al-Assad boarded to flee the country crashed. The real fate of the plane remains unclear.
