İbrahim Kalın, head of Turkey's National Intelligence Organization, sat down with Syria's foreign minister in Ankara. His guest was Esad Hasan Şeybani, who leads the foreign ministry in Damascus. Pairing an intelligence chief with a foreign minister points to the breadth of the files behind the meeting. No readout of the conversation was published, which fits the quiet style of such contacts. Ankara and Damascus have kept up a steady run of high-level exchanges as their relationship has shifted. Security and border questions sit near the centre of the two countries' dealings, alongside the political track. For now, both sides seem content to let the meeting itself do the talking.