Erdogan, Putin And The Beginning Of The Endgame In Syria – OpEd

By Hafed Al-Ghwell*

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced a major counteroffensive against Assad-backed forces last week that could have resulted in the deadliest confrontation so far in Syria’s nine-year civil war — with Turkey, a NATO member, on one side and Russia, NATO’s foremost adversary, on the other....