Omer Ozkizilcik

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Alawite protesters in Syria are either former supporters of ousted President Bashar al-Assad or act on response to disseminated fake news, non-resident fellow at the Atlantic Council Omer Ozkizilcik says.  #Syria

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00:00Alawite communities have been protesting in several Syrian cities.

00:04What do we know about the reasons behind this recent unrest?

00:09So what we have seen so far is that we can basically divide the protest into two.

00:14One is the former regime supporters who have came out to protest and to signal that they

00:19are still there, that they have still political might in Syria and that they want to exercise

00:26some political power in the new Syria.

00:28And then we have the other ones who are people who gather in response to the manipulated

00:34news or fake news even in some cases that are being widely spread.

00:39So because we see that some elements within the former Assad regime, emperors especially

00:46close to Iran, are trying to incite hatred between the Sunnis and the Alawites in Syria

00:52still continuing after the ousting of the Bashar Assad regime.

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