Devlet Bahçeli's statement on 'Syria': 'Our Alevi brothers and sisters are our lifeblood'

MHP Chairman Devlet Bahçeli shared a post on his social media account regarding the events in Syria. Bahçeli said, "The dark picture where Ba'ath remnants act as puppets is clear in all its gravity. The conflicts threaten our country's public order." 

6 Mart 2025 tarihinden itibaren özellikle Suriye’nin Lazkiye ve Tartus kentlerinde patlak veren, müteakiben Hama, Humus ve Dera kentlerine de sıçrayan silahlı ve sipariş çatışmalar komşu coğrafyaların huzur ve istikrarı kadar ülkemizin de iç asayiş ve barış ortamını tehdit edici…

— Devlet Bahçeli (@dbdevletbahceli) March 10, 2025

Devlet Bahçeli included the following statements in his message:

"The armed and commissioned conflicts that have broken out since March 6, 2025, particularly in the Syrian cities of Latakia and Tartus, and subsequently spread to the cities of Hama, Homs, and Daraa, are of a nature and caliber that threaten the internal public order and peace environment of our country as much as the peace and stability of neighboring geographies.

The ethnic and sectarian-based confrontations, for which there is not the slightest doubt that they are controlled from the outside, have unfortunately given functionality and progress to nightmare scenarios. The regional and global hostility mechanism, which resists Syria's rebirth from its ashes and aims to prevent such an effective awakening, has embarked on the manufacture of chaos through its subcontractors.

Even though the waters have relatively calmed down in Syria and the internal bleeding has been brought under control, it is too early to say that the crisis environment, which is like a deep-sea wave, has subsided. A primitive and disgusting plot that scratches and probes sectarian conflict, and in this way aims to set Syria on fire and corner regional countries, is visibly making progress. The dark picture where Ba'ath remnants act as puppets, foreign intelligence agencies are active, and Zionist barbarism is in play is clear in all its gravity.

In this context, the Republican People's Party (CHP) acting like a hitman for the Ba'ath mentality and attempting an exploitation campaign through our Alevi brothers and sisters is a new derivative of its sick and hostile politics. The CHP's sectarian provocation is the gravest evil that can be done not only to Turkey but also to Islamic societies, regional balances, and dynamics during these blessed days. The CHP taking a position like a Ba'ath remnant and extension is a very dangerous fracture and rupture.

Our Alevi brothers and sisters are our lifeblood and our heart; they are the inseparable, indivisible, and indivisible faith and human values of our nation and the Islamic world. In our view, those who dig a chasm between Alevis and Sunnis, those who create division between them, and furthermore, those who present them as distant and foreign to each other are enemies of religion, faith, nation, and the Ummah. Neither our Alevi brothers and sisters nor our Sunni brothers and sisters will be deceived by deadly games, and they will never fall for them. The CHP's path is not the right path. The statements of CHP executives and deputies can only be interpreted as paving the way for and leading sedition and corruption.

Those who pursue political sectarianism and ethnic discrimination are both committing a crime against humanity and are complicit in goals and actions that are contrary to the law and the constitution.

It would be beneficial for the DEM Party to clarify its stance and attitude in the face of these developments. Will they discuss the February 27 Imrali call in their contacts with the CHP or other parties, or will they listen to and join the fake and fossilized clichés of parties that are taking steps and seeking to destroy ethnic and sectarian sensitivities? Will they fulfill the requirements of the “Call for Peace and Democratic Society” prepared by the founding leader of the PKK, or will they act as intermediaries for rotten political mentalities that project Turkey falling into internal turmoil and chaos under the pretext of Syria? It is an urgent and vital need for the DEM Party to crystallize its decision in this framework.

While Turkey is on the eve of permanently and categorically removing terrorism from the life of the nation and the state, neither God will forgive nor the noble Turkish nation will tolerate opportunistic, fickle, and thoughtless politicians who use ethnic and sectarian provocations as political tools and arguments.

The Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) is concerned about the cultivation of other and more terrifying emerging problems while a struggle for liberation from one trouble is being waged, and invites everyone, especially political parties, to be moral, sensitive, national, and responsible.

Let it not be forgotten that the gasoline poured on the fire will burn the one who pours it first; whoever hopes for help from the wind will have their roof blown off first."