i highly doubt assad would be on a plane that could be monitored by randoms. though it's possible. i don't think it matters either way at this point   yeah, except russia has far less reach than the usa so turkey would have a lot of room for expansion and could invade the us backed kurds in the east directly, as well as threaten israel (which is the long term goal of the neo-ottomanists). they would be more economically secure with zogmerica, at least in the short to medium term, but israel wants a kurdish state as an ally and this would be held over erdogans head as leverage for his cooperation with regards to israel
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