De-escalation talks between representatives of Russia and Turkey have failed to yield any agreement after 13 soldiers were killed over the course of the past week as Syrian President Bashar Assad\u2019s forces continued their efforts to take the strategic M5 highway to Aleppo from rebels for the first time since 2012. By late Tuesday, it remained unclear as to whether the Syrian government\u2019s efforts were successful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Turkey has sent hundreds of military vehicles and troops to its Idlib outposts in the past week in one of the most serious confrontations between the country and Syria\u2019s government in the nine-year war. Though Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has threatened that Assad\u2019s government will pay \u201ca very heavy price\u201d for the Turkish soldiers killed, he may not want to risk a direct clash with the Russian aircraft and personnel backing the Syrian forces, which could lead to an even more dangerous escalation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Neither Russia nor Turkey is \u201cprepared to cede either the principal or the ground\u201d in Idlib, Tobias Schneider, a research fellow at the Global Public Policy Institute in Berlin, told DW. \u201cWe might see a minor conflagration as we saw in 2015 when the Turks shot down a Russian jet, and then we would see who would back down first,\u201d Schneider said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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