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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.
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
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,
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
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
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
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
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
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
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