syria has always been ruled by nusayri minority, even during french colonial rule. nusayris make about 10% of the syrian population and consider sunnis and turks infidels. french left the power to this minority during the great syrian revolt in 1920's. where ataturk was supporting the syrian revolt against french and syrians wanted to unify with turkey. french handed the control to the minority to avoid them ever uniting with turkey. during the 1980s assads father killed hundreds of thousands of sunnis during a revolt. hafez also supported pkk and its leader lived in damascus until 1998 (when turkey threatened to invade, hafez deported him). bashar once again barrel bombed and genocided his population. turkey wants to hand over syria to sunnis and annex it.
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