Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s land grab in Syria, like his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin’s Crimea annexation, has met with a weak international response. Will that encourage more land grabs? Any nations thinking of doing so should be warned: Such conquests succeed only if they don’t set off full-scale war.
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Leonid Bershidsky: Turkey and Russia show that land grabs can pay off
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin attend a ceremony marking the completion of the sea part of the TurkStream gas pipeline in Istanbul, on Nov. 19, 2018.
