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Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Time to Dial the Turkey-Syria Hotline - NYTimes.com

Time to Dial the Turkey-Syria Hotline
By HARVEY MORRIS
| April 10, 2012, 7:24 am
Syrian refugees pictured at a camp in Turkey near the scene of Monday's border shooting.Ihlas News Agency, via Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesSyrian refugees pictured at a camp in Turkey near the scene of Monday’s border shooting.

ISTANBUL — This might be a good time to dust off the Ankara-Damascus hotline.

Turkey and Syria agreed to set up the emergency link between their capitals in 1998 to avoid a repetition of a crisis that almost led to war between the two countries that year. Relations are now as bad as they have been since then.

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