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Turkey Must Choose the Tough Option and Leave Syria
- Ankara doesn’t want to leave, but it doesn’t want armed conflict either.
On September 17, Erdoğan reached an agreement with Putin at a meeting in Sochi to create buffer zones between government forces and those of the opposition confronting each other in Syria’s northwestern province of Idlib in a…
- Mohammed Ayoob
- The National Interest
This may have postponed the military showdown for the moment but is unlikely to lead to a lasting solution as the regime of President Bashar al-Assad supported by Russia and…
Turkish options in Syria are limited as the Russians seem intent on helping Assad to establish control over Idlib and…