Turkey wants no confrontation with Israel in Syria after repeated Israeli attacks on military sites there undermined the new government's ability to deter threats, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan told Reuters on Friday.

Omer Ozkizilcik, a non-resident fellow for the Syria Project in the Atlantic Council, told MEE that Israel's prime aim in Syria was to have a "weak Damascus".

Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar on Thursday accused Turkey of playing a “negative role” in multiple regional countries and adopting an 'aggressive attitude' toward the Kurdish administration in northeastern Syria (Rojava).