The Erdogan–Putin agreement in Moscow on Idlib in March 2020 is considered a turning point that allowed for changes in the area of compulsory service, according to researcher assistant Muhsen AlMustafa, a military relations specialist at the Omran Center for Strategic Studies. He added in an interview with Al-Quds Al-Arabi that the period from mid-2023 to mid-2024 witnessed the issuance of “several administrative orders ending the retention of certain categories serving in the reserves, before, for the first time, an official discussion emerged about a plan to transform into a professional and advanced qualitative army.”