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TV journalists gather around a map showing Turkey's operation in Syria, as they work on a hilltop in Ceylanpinar, Sanliurfa province, southeastern Turkey, near the Syrian border, hours before a five-day cease-fire in northern Syria between Turkish troops and Syrian Kurdish fighters is set to expire, Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2019. Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was meeting Russian President Vladimir Putin in talks crucial to the outcome of Turkey's latest incursion into northern Syria, where Ankara demands a long "safe zone" cleared of Kurdish fighters. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)