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The article reports on foreign relations between Syria and Turkey. It mentions that With Russia's encouragement, Syria and Turkey are edging towards rapprochement, and the efforts of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad and Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in addressing issues of nuclear weapons and inflation.

The article looks at the civil war in Syria and the prospects of the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad. It reports that both the Assad government and the anti-Assad Islamic State (IS) militant group have experienced military defeats and have lost control of previously-held territories in the country. Topics include Saudi Arabia and Turkey increasing their support for anti-government Sunni rebel groups, Iran's support for Assad, and wins by anti-government Kurdish militias.

The article looks at Turkey's foreign relations with the U.S. in the context of the international effort to defeat the Islamic State (IS) militant group operating in Iraq and Syria and of Turkey's ongoing conflict with its Kurdish minority. Topics include Turkey's agreement for the use of the North American Treaty Organization (NATO) airbase in Incirlik, Turkey, for anti-IS attacks, Turkey's air attacks against Kurdish Worker's Party (PKK) forces in Iraq, and the Kurdish militia in Syria.

Comments on relations between Turkey and Syria in 1998. Dispatch of troops to the Syrian border; Syria's call for a unified Arab stand against Turkey; Turkey's alliance with Israel; Reasons for the strife between the nations; Syria's support of the Kurdish Worker's Party guerrilla group in Turkey; Fear that the conflict could spread throughout the Middle East.

The article discusses foreign relations between Turkey and Russia in the context of their differing reactions to the 2012 Syrian civil unrest and efforts related to the removal of Syrian dictator Bashar Assad. Topics include Turkey-Russia business relations, the impact of Syrian refugees on Turkey, as well as relations between Russia's president Vladimir Putin and Turkey's prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

This article focuses on Turkey's foreign relations with Iran and Syria. An awkward mix of neighbors has long forced Turkey to make the best of opportunities that present themselves abroad. Turkey's Prime Minister Suleyman Demirel has warned Syria to stop harboring Kurdish guerrillas in Lebanon. Relations with Iran, which had improved despite enduring Iranian suspicion of Turkey's secular constitution, have hit another low. The Turkish government suspects Iran of supporting Turkey's own Kurdish and radical Islamic opposition as part of the wider competition for influence after the collapse of the Soviet empire.

Presents information on the tensions between Turkey and Syria in October of 1998 and how Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak has aided in negotiations. Turkey issuing demands that Syrian President Hafez Assad equated with a call to war; Issue of the expulsion from Syria of guerrillas from the Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK); Progress that has been made; Possibility of the meeting of the countries' respective foreign ministers.