Grudge between Ankara and Moscow deepens in struggle for regional influence
Anthony Skinner, director at Verisk Maplecroft.
Few eyebrows were raised when the Russian government accused Turkey of breaching Syria's fragile cease-fire on February 28 by targeting Kurdish forces in northern Syria. After all, this is just another example of the war of words between Moscow and Ankara that has brought 15 years of rapprochement between the two long-standing rivals to a full-stop.
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