TURKISH TIES: Strain Threatens Honey-moon, Strategic Depth.

The article focuses on the strain between the relationship of Syria and Turkey. It states that the efforts of Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan by sending his intelligence chief in Damascus to encourage Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to exchange repression for reform has failed. It mentions that the relationship worsen when the leaders of the Syrian opposition preferred to meet in Turkey to deter a plan for democracy as well as speak out against the regime of Assad.