T. v. ciliciensis is not a syrian subspecies, but a turkish one. According to the general idea in Israël, Syria, Lebanon and south point east of Adana in Turkey are all T.v.v. and west and north of Adana (Turkey) is all T.v. cilicensis. In the new german handbook is a good overview shown (from an article published by Franzen & Schmidtler in the german magazine Salamandra a few years ago). A old former subspecies like 'excubitor' is no longer valid. The problem with these old descriptions is that there were mostly only few animals and they never could see variation within the population. The animals can start breeding at very small size (like T. pygmaeus) or can have different shapes in crest.
I have T. v. cilicensis as well. I hope they will breed..so if they do I'll let you know.