Turkiye can play key role in EU engagement with Syria

The EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Kaja Kallas visited Damascus this week, where she said that Brussels wanted to “upgrade” its partnership with Syria and help boost the country’s recovery, but she also called for further domestic reform. Following the fall of the Bashar Assad regime, the EU launched a new chapter with Syria. EU chief Ursula von der Leyen told Syria’s new President Ahmad Al-Sharaa that Europe would “do everything it can” to support Syria’s recover