Syria ruffles Turkey’s feathers
Tony Badran , November 17, 2011
The attack by Syrian regime thugs on Turkish missions in Syria last Saturday has spurred a strong rebuke and warnings from Ankara. However, while this may have been the most open Syrian attack against Turkey, it certainly was not the first, or the most dangerous. For months now, the Turks have known that Damascus, in league with Tehran, is working with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) against them. In Bashar al-Assad’s calculation, the PKK offers an instrument both to deter Turkey and to splinter the opposition to his rule.
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