Turkey rethinking Assad opposition
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At one point, the Turks were threatening military action against Syria to create a buffer for refugees and fleeing Syrian military personnel, but now that talk also has subsided.
Meantime, Syria has begun its own version of sending a clear message to the Turks by halting massive numbers of Turkish trucks whose owners depend on transit routes through Syria to trade with the rest of the Middle East. Hundreds of trucks have been stopped at the Syrian border and are being charged higher tariff rates.
This is Syrian retaliation to the targeted sanctions the Turkish government imposed against the Syrian government against bank lending and conducting business with Turkish firms.
Trucks returning to Turkey also are being halted at the Syrian border and not allowed to proceed.
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