Turkey’s ‘bear trap’ option in Syria
Posted by seumasach on October 6, 2015
M.K.Bhadrakumar
6th October, 2015
The two incidents involving Turkey and the Russian aircraft operating in northern Syria on successive days in the weekend throw into bold relief the single most crucial template of the Syrian conflict in the coming months. Turkey happens to be the only regional power that could actually create a ‘quagmire’ for Russia in Syria – similar to the role Pakistan performed in the eighties vis-à-vis the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan.
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