Except there ' s little evidence that ranked ballots would significantly change the number of incumbents elected . Introducing parties and a proportional system would be more effective . <| sep |> I honestly can not think of a single secular group Turkey has supported . Even those that pretended to be secular like Farouq Brigade and Jaysh al Mujahideen were run by irreligious thugs committing sectarian crime while pretending to do it in the name of Islam . No MarxistLeninist group . I don ' t think they even did because Turkey was heavily spreading sectarian propaganda . Constantly engaging in provocative languages about Alawites , Shias and praying in the Ummayd Mosque despite the Imams there wanting nothing to do with them . As i said Turkey under Erdoan is spreading sectarian propaganda because 1 They want to counter Iran ' s infulunce 2 Gulf countries invest in Turkey a lot and Erdoan needs them . What I would do and what Assad would do are two different things . Assad cares only about securing his power and is happy to forgive even the craziest jihadi . I would basically wholesale punish villages . Any Turkmen village that rebelled are gone . Let them go to Ankara or live near the Armenian border and keep an eye on it . Anybody who betrayed their country and turned on their fellow citizens have lost the right to live thereAsaad is ready to forgive because he wants to regain sunnis support and it is better than fighting them . You can call them traitors but punishing their famlies and villiages are not ok if you are ruling a countryStalin called us traitor ! and send us to central asia but it only caused more problems . The vast majority of terrorists entered Syria and Iraq through Turkey . They can ' t go back home and they have no future in Syria . Nobody is going to allow those Chinerse Ugyhurs or Chechens to live in Syria . If they go back to Russia or China they will die . Terrorists are already fleeing into Turkey and the remaining ones will do so once the army comes closer . That is what Syrians did to Lebanon . They didn ' t close the border they chased terrorists into Lebanon before closing it . Most of them went to Turkey but the rest are trapped in Lebanon . Same will happen to Turkey . And nobody has committed the level of crimes that these jihadists have done . They are so evil that the majority of Arabs , Christians and Turkmen in Northern Syria prefer to live under PKK rule then them . That is why PKK finds it easy to control Northern Syria . I don ' t dislike Turkish people , culture or history . I do dislike Turkey as a political entity . All it does is ruin its neighbours . When I say Turkey destroyed Iraq and Syria I mean . Those weapons and terrorists that destroyed those countries came from Turkey . Those factions and political leaders that kept them divided and conflict ridden are Turkish . In fact right now Barzani is illegally selling oil to Israel through Turkey and there is nothing Iraq can do about it because Turkey is protecting him . Its these things that are ruining the country . Ok but it is to harsh to say Turkey destroyed them . Turkey played a part in Syria but most of those wouldn ' t be there without Gukd countries and Nato . Some came from all over the world some were there and Nato gave them weapons . That is why Iran is gaining influence and why Turkey isn ' t . Iran is a smart player and tries to help countries while Turkey thinks it can topple governments and install puppet regimes . That is why despite the sectarianism being aired , millions of Syrian and Iraqi Sunnis look up to Iran and send their sons to fight with their Shia militias like Hezbollah . Sectarianism means nothing when those who call themselves Sunnis are killing you whole those who call themselves Shia are sacrificing their lives to help you . You are right about Iran but replace Turkey with Gulf countries and Nato . NoteI know i just write because of Gulf countries and Nato to every thing but it is the truth . Turkey played a huge role but it is notthing compared to them .