President Erdogan is learning the hard way the lesson that it is easy to get into a messy situation such as Syria, it is much more difficult to get out, writes Dennis Sammut
There are already speculations as to why the elections are being held in April and not in October as originally planned, but the most likely one is that the government wants to keep the period of uncertainty to the minimum.
As international mediatiors return to the region this weekend, reports of incidents on the front line, and a return to maximalist rhetoric, continue to poison the atmosphere
The Afrin events are being used to assert the notion that without Russian military guarantees, and a Russian military base deployed in Armenia, Yerevan will be under a constant threat from a potential Turkish offensive, says Benyamin Poghosyan in this op-ed