‘Stakes higher’ in Idlib but NATO ‘won’t run to Erdogan’s aid’ despite efforts to have allies intervene in Syria

NATO will not offer

NATO will not offer anything more than words of support to its member Turkey despite Ankara’s efforts to rally its allies after Turkish soldiers came under fire from the Syrian Army in the Idlib ‘de-escalation’ zone, RT was told.

NATO’s collective defense pledge is “not applicable in the case of Turkey because we have an armed conflict on Syrian soil,” Sergey Balmasov, an expert with the Russian International Affairs Council and the Moscow-based Institute for the Near East, told RT.

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