President Erdoğan received the Druze leader Walid Jumblatt from Lebanon.

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President Erdoğan met with the Druze leader of Lebanon, Walid Jumblatt, at the Presidential Palace. The meeting was closed to the press.

Also present at the meeting were the President of the National Intelligence Organization, İbrahim Kalın, and the President's Chief Advisor on Foreign Policy and Security, Akif Çağatay Kılıç. A photo was shared from the meeting, which was closed to the press.

MET WITH AHMED SHARA IN DAMASCUS

The Druze leader Walid Jumblatt, an important actor in the Middle East, met with the leader of the new administration in Syria, Ahmed Shara, in the capital Damascus during his visit to Syria last Sunday after many years.

"THE REGIME WORKED TO DISRUPT SYRIAN UNITY"

After the meeting, Shara stated to the press, "The regime worked to disrupt Syrian unity." In media footage, Shara mentioned that children, mothers, and siblings had been separated for years, saying, "The operation we conducted was a fluid operation." Shara noted, "Look, no one was displaced in the big city. Not a piece was destroyed," indicating that Bashar al-Assad's administration was trying to maintain its existence through a sectarian approach.

HE HAD CONGRATULATED SHARA

Jumblatt had congratulated Ahmed Shara on the occasion of the fall of Bashar al-Assad's administration during a phone call on December 15.

HE HAS BEEN AT THE HEAD OF THE PARTY AND THE DRUZE COMMUNITY SINCE 1977

Walid Jumblatt's father, Kemal Jumblatt, the founder of the Progressive Socialist Party, was assassinated two years after the outbreak of the civil war in Lebanon in 1977. After his father's assassination, Walid Jumblatt took over the leadership of the party and has been in this position for 46 years.

Jumblatt is also the most important leader of the Druze community in Lebanon. His father, Kemal Jumblatt, was shot dead in his car by an unidentified armed person on March 16, 1977.

In his testimony at the United Nations Special Tribunal for Lebanon in 2015, Walid Jumblatt stated that the Syrian regime was behind his father's assassination.