Skip to content

Minorities

Turkiye Today 5 minutes

Politically dead? How will far-right Zafer Party in Türkiye be affected by Assad’s fall

The fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria, a scenario increasingly discussed in recent geopolitical analyses, poses a pivotal question for Türkiye’s far-right political movements, particularly the Zafer Party (Victory Party). The party, under the leadership of Umit Ozdag, has built its political identity and support base almost entirely on the anti-immigrant sentiment stemming from the presence and past flow of millions of Syrian refugees in Türkiye.