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Thursday, November 03, 2011

Ankara is mistaken on the topic of Assad

Ankara is mistaken on the topic of Assad

Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Mehmet Ali Birand - mab@hurriyet.com.tr

From the beginning, I could not perceive Turkey’s Syria policy.

Once upon a time, because it was nurturing the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), Turkey, justifiably, was about to go to war with Syria. In 1998, they expelled Öcalan. Then the father died and his son Bashar al-Assad replaced him. Everything changed.

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