Turkey is the only hope for the victims of the genocidal onslaught in Idlib

It is worth remembering that the initial protests in Syria were calling for social change, not regime change. It was the heavy-handed response of the Bashar Al-Assad government to the protests which changed attitudes and radicalised many ordinary people in the country. Assad could have responded peacefully, but opted to use violence against his own people; hundreds of thousands have since been killed, and millions have been displaced. The BBC put it like this: "When the government used deadly force to crush the dissent, protests demanding the president's resignation erupted nationwide."