Uneasy Allies: The Real Relationship Between Turkey and Syria's New Rulers

Uneasy Allies: The Real Relationship Between Turkey and Syria's New Rulers

Turkey’s relationship with Syria’s new leadership has undergone a startling evolution. What began, prior to the fall of Bashar al-Assad, as an uneasy partnership of necessity, fraught with mutual distrust, has matured into a formal alliance. Yet it remains a bond defined more by friction than unison. This is not a relationship of subservience, but a partnership defined by mutual dependence, whereby an increasingly assertive Damascus frequently c…