The End of Turkey’s Double Game With ISIS?
By Jonathan Broder 12/5/15 at 3:44 PM
For several years, the White House has watched with mounting frustration as Turkey—a supposed American ally in the fight against ISIS—has left a crucial portion of its southern border thinly guarded. Behind closed doors, U.S. officials have urged President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to do something to stop foreign fighters who fly into Istanbul, then slip across the border into Syria to replenish the ranks of the jihadist group. They also want Erdogan to block the trucks loaded with ammunition and explosives that rumble across the border and to crack down on Turkish middlemen taking part in the oil-smuggling trade—an operation that nets the self-declared caliphate roughly $1.5 million per day. All to no avail.
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