QUICKTAKE: Turkey has Enough Trouble
July 24, 2012 By Middle East Voices
Hugh Pope, Project Director for Turkey of the International Crisis Group is stationed in Istanbul. He comments on the difficult situation Turkey finds itself in trying to assist Syrian opposition groups without being drawn into a war with Syria. But the country’s predicament is complicated by another dimension – the on-going clashes they have with a Kurdish population that exists in both countries. Turkey has battled separatists (the PKK) for decades but it’s difficult to tell the good guys from the bad guys.
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