Asia Times | Sochi meet may shed light on Turkey’s Syria saga
ByM.K. Bhadrakumar - October 22, 2019
▻https://www.asiatimes.com/2019/10/article/sochi-meet-may-shed-light-on-turkeys-syria-saga
As the Trump administration does damage control after ‘abandoning the Kurds,’ Erdogan is weighing Russia’s stance on ‘safe zone’
The extraordinary US overture to Turkey regarding northern Syria resulted in a joint statement last Thursday, the ramifications of which can be rated only in the fullness of time, though they may become clearer after the meeting on Tuesday in Sochi between Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Vladimir Putin.
The US objectives range from President Donald Trump’s compulsions in domestic politics to the future trajectory of the US policies toward Syria and the impact of any US-Turkish rapprochement on the geopolitics of the Syrian conflict. (...)