War In Syria Heating Up Again, Prompting Tense Putin-Erdogan Summit War In Syria Heating Up Again, Prompting Tense Putin-Erdogan Summit On Wednesday Russia’s Vladimir Putin met with Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan in their first face-to-face summit in a year-and-a-half, also as tensions soar between the two countries on Syria policy. Their meeting in Sochi was lengthy, lasting about …