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Turkey Paying High Price For Covert ISIS Support
Turkey has worked to improve relations with the Kurds in Iraq but now risk blowing any progress that has been made with their refusal to intervene in Kobani.  The situation has escalated to [such] an extent that [the] Turks [have] felt compelled to take up air strikes again against the PKK, for the first time since peace talks began, two years ago. Kurds are rioting in Diyarbakir, Mardin, Siirt, Mus, Van and Batman provinces.If ISIS finally takes Kobani and [massacre] the Kurds, the situation in Turkey could explode. Turkey wants to take down pencil-neck but due to their own actions (e.g. cutting military ties to Israel) have a limited ability to strike Assad. Posted by: Whereter Ebbenter4423 2014-10-15 |
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