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Metin Gurcan

Jan 17, 2020

Turkish intelligence chief Hakan Fidan, seen with Defense Minister Hulusi Akar, before a meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Aug. 24, 2018. — Alexander Zemlianichenko/Pool via REUTERS

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov leave a joint news conference following their talks in Moscow, Russia January 13, 2020. Pavel Golovkin/Pool via REUTERS - RC24FE9RU9P6

As Russia mediates Syria-Turkey talks, can new Idlib truce hold?

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IDLIB, SYRIA - AUGUST 22: Turkish military armoured vehicles are deployed to the observations point in Idlib, de-escalation zone, Syria on August 22, 2019. (Photo by Izeddin Idilbi/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

End game looms for Turkey in Idlib

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In Paris, reporting on Turkish politics

A Turkish military convoy drives through the village of Iblin, near Ariha in Syria's rebel-held northwestern Idlib province on October 20, 2020 after vacating the Morek post in Hama's countryside. - Turkey started withdrawing from one of its largest outposts in northwest Syria encircled for the past year by Syrian regime forces, a war monitor and a pro-Ankara rebel commander said. The outpost in Morek is Turkey's largest in the northwest province of Hama, which is now mostly under Syrian government control.

Turkey’s withdrawal in Idlib may be omen of war

Fehim Tastekin

In Paris, reporting on Turkish politics

With Turkey preoccupied with Libya, Idlib slips through Ankara’s fingers

Fehim Tastekin

In Paris, reporting on Turkish politics