The Turks have a good reputation but I saw something on the History Channel a year or so back which made me think the Syrians might be hard to beat too.
They were discussing the last Arab Israeli war with an Israeli Tank commander. He described the battle in detail. The Israelis won but he admitted some admiration for the Syrians. He said they kept coming even tho their tanks were being destroyed and died to a man. None of them ran.
:’) In the 1973 war, the Israeli tank commanders directed fire from the open hatch, which at least at that time was standard practice. All the Syrians went in buttoned down. Number one, they couldn’t see the Israelis in time, and couldn’t see what was happening around them; Number two, they had overwhelming numbers and attacked on Yom Kippur, and didn’t expect to encounter any Israelis; Number three, they were operating under a SAM umbrella (the IAF knocks out tanks from the air); Number four, the two generals who ran Syria’s illegal war and invasion of Israel were executed by the former dictator (the current dic’s father, as well as the source of their orders to attack) and their bodies dragged through the streets of Damascus — IOW, there was no incentive to run for it. Syria lost almost 1100 tanks in 1973, and despite SAM support, lost a healthy chunk of their air force in combat, not on the ground like in 1967.