As a result, Turkey now finds itself collaborating with Saudi Arabia in backing the Al Nusra Front, the Syrian arm of Al Qaeda, which captured Idlib in the first major military setback for Assad in recent months. Still, Turkey’s recent behavior – from Erdoğan’s shocking call for an end to the Sykes-Picot system to its de facto collusion with the Islamic State’s siege of the Kurdish town of Kobani, just over the border in Syria – has discouraged the region’s major Sunni powers from pursuing closer ties.
结果，土耳其现在与沙特阿拉伯合作支持基地组织叙利亚分支胜利阵线（Al Nusra Front），该组织在最近几个月以来巴沙尔的首次重大军事挫折中攻占了伊德利卜（Idlib）。但是，土耳其最近的行为——从埃尔多安令人震惊地呼吁结束赛克斯·皮科（Sykes-Picot）体系到其与伊斯兰国事实勾结包围位于土叙边境的库尔德人城镇科巴尼（Kobani）——让该地区主要逊尼派力量无法寻求与其的更紧密的合作。