Syria, 2025: Honey for Turkey, but a Trap for Everybody Else?

The ‘transitional’ administration at Damascus looks like it is going to stay a while — that’s good news if your last name is Erdogan.

AP/Mosa'ab Elshamy
Syria's de facto leader Ahmad al-Sharaa, foreground, formerly known as Abu Mohammed al-Golani, walks in the presidential palace ahead of his meeting with Walid Ellafi, Libyan minister of state for communication and political affairs, at Damascus, December 28, 2024. AP/Mosa'ab Elshamy

In ancient times it was the Greeks who built the Trojan Horse — in these times, is it the turn of the Turks? When a regime like the former authoritarian one in Syria is so swiftly replaced, it is the new transitional administration itself that is already providing some clues. 

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