In this week’s editors’ discussion on Trend Lines, WPR’s Judah Grunstein and Elliot Waldman talk about Turkey’s escalating military confrontation with the Russian-backed forces of President Bashar al-Assad in Syria. They also discuss the refugee crisis that erupted this week along the Greece-Turkey border.

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