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Monday, September 09, 2013

Turkey Decides Jabhat Al-Nusra Is a Threat - Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East

Turkey Decides Jabhat Al-Nusra Is a Threat
By: Kadri Gursel for Al-Monitor Turkey Pulse Posted on September 9.

Some may be wondering about the title of this article. After all, although Jabhat al-Nusra is fighting a regime Ankara wants to eliminate in Syria, shouldn’t the radical Islamist group's announcement of its affiliation with al-Qaeda be enough reason to consider it a threat to the "secular and democratic” Turkish republic?

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