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Tuesday, October 07, 2014

Turkey's Syria policy complicates role in U.S.-led coalition - LA Times

Turkey's Syria policy complicates role in U.S.-led coalition
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From the sky, U.S. warplanes have been dropping bombs to impede the advance of militant Islamist fighters on the Syrian border city of Kobani.

On the ground nearby, a formidable array of Turkish tanks and troops appears to be the best-positioned force to turn back the militants with Islamic State, but the Turks’ focus is elsewhere. The military is busy corralling Kurdish activists enraged at the extremist threat to Kobani, a largely Kurdish enclave.

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