Growing less mild
Turkey’s aggressive posture towards Syria signals a shift in foreign policy with imperial overtones
Apr 14th 2012 | ANKARA | from the print edition
IN THE early hours of April 9th a group of Syrian civilians fled to the Turkish border as clashes between insurgents from the Free Syrian Army (FSA) and Syrian government forces raged. Two Syrians died and several others, including two Turks, were wounded when Syrian troops fired on the civilians’ destination, a refugee camp located in the Turkish province of Kilis.
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