Syria: Turkey's next move

Turkey retaliates for the shelling of a border town, but intervention is clearly not on the cards. As Syria descends into what the Guardian's Martin Chulov describes as a "sectarian abyss", should Ankara - which now hosts nearly 100,000 refugees - draw NATO into the conflict?

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Suat KINIKLIOĞLU, Director, Stratim (Center for Strategic Communication); AK Party Deputy Chairman for External Affairs (from Ankara);
Martin CHULOV, Middle East Correspondent for The Guardian (from Beirut),
Kamal AL-LABWANI, Syrian dissident (from Stockholm);
Anton KOSLOV, Associate Professor, American Graduate School of Paris.

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Produced by Wassim Nasr, Pauline Heilmann, Mary Colombel, Anelise Borges

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François Picard

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