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Turkey’s Key Objectives in Doubt Following Sochi Deal Over Syria

Source:Voice of America Date:24Oct2019

Veteran journalist Dorian Jones puts the nail on the head:   Erdogan is facing mounting domestic pressure to repatriate the more than 3.5 million Syrians in Turkey who fled the civil war.

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Turkey wants Syrian forces to leave border areas, aide says

Source:Yahoo News Date:22Oct2019

By far the best and simplest article on what Turkey watns in North East Syria, what Kurds are willing to give and where Assad stands   Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan wants Syrian

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Turkey sanctions face possible wall in GOP Senate

Source:The Hill Date:21Oct2019

An embarrassment of riches:  Turkey’s saving grace may be too many sanctions bills competing with each other.  However, nothing in the article verifes the title. Strange!   McConnell,

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Germany’s Maas says Turkey ‘invasion’ illegitimate under international law

Source:Deutsche Welle Date:21Oct2019

Germany fires warning shot across the bow:   German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas has described Turkey’s offensive against Syrian Kurds as an “invasion” and said Berlin saw

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Pence and Erdoğan agree on ceasefire plan but Kurds reject ‘occupation’

Source:The Guardian Date:18Oct2019

The arrangement, however, appeared to be a significant US embrace of Turkey’s position in the weeklong conflict, and did not publicly define the safe zone’s borders. General Mazloum Kobane of the

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Turkey’s Halkbank Faces U.S. Charges as Tensions Mount

Source:Bloomberg Date:16Oct2019

In an indictment filed Tuesday in Manhattan federal court, prosecutors accused government-owned Halkbank of participating in a wide-ranging plot to violate prohibitions on Iran’s access to the

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Erdoğan’s calamitous Syrian blunder has finally broken his spell over Turkey

Source:The Guardian Date:16Oct2019

Simon Tisdall:   As Erdoğan’s excesses and failures mount, loyalty to him is weakening. High-profile AKP defectors include not only Babacan and Davutoğlu, who plan new political parties, but

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Dangerous scramble on horizon for key Syrian city of Manbij

Source:The Independent Date:15Oct2019

New twist in Operation Peace Spring:  Turkish and Damascus forces moving dangerously close!   Video distributed online appeared to show scenes of Syrian regime forces on the move, heading

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The Observer view on Syria: a new horror foretold which shames us all

Source:The Observer Date:13Oct2019

An old horror rears its ugly head:   The fate of detained Isis fighters, totalling about 10,000 across northern Syria and Iraq, is an issue to which Erdoğan, too, has plainly not given

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Domestic politics, Idlib sway timing of Turkey’s Syrian operation

Source:al Monitor Date:13Oct2019

Across Turkey and in big cities in particular, most of the Syrian refugees live in close proximity to AKP voters, either in the same neighborhoods or adjoining ones. Under the impact of the

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