How Turkey should respond to Israel's escalation in Syria

How Turkey should respond to Israel's escalation in Syria Submitted by Ali Bakir on Mon, 08/24/2026 - 19:25 Erdogan has outfoxed Netanyahu so far - but Ankara must be prepared for the possibility of a direct confrontation Israeli and Turkish flags fly behind battle tanks on display at the Yad La-Shiryon tank museum in Latrun, west of Jerusalem, on 18 August 2022 (Gil Cohen-Magen/AFP) On Last week, Israel carried out a raid targeting the runway of Syria ’s Abu al-Duhur airbase, a largely inactive facility with no fl