Showdown comes ahead of meeting between presidents Tayyip Erdogan and Vladimir Putin this week
A boy looks at a convoy of Turkish military vehicles near the town of Hazano in Syria's Idlib province, March 3 2020. Picture: AAREF WATAD / AFP
In response to the Turkish assault and advances by Turkey-backed rebels, Moscow said on Monday that Russian military police were helping fortify the strategic town of Saraqeb, which has changed hands three times in a month, to ensure it didn't fall into rebel hands. Nato member Turkey has the alliance's second-largest army. Russia, a nuclear-armed power, has a major airbase in Syria and deployed warships in the Mediterranean last week.
A person with direct knowledge of the Russian military police deployment in Syria said they had entered Saraqeb to show the Turks that they risked a direct clash with Moscow if they tried to retake it.
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