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Tuesday, May 08, 2012

Turkey: Ankara's nightmare, post-Assad partition of Syria

Turkey: Ankara's nightmare, post-Assad partition of Syria
With Alawi state on Mediterranean, risking domino effect

08 May, 20:21

(ANSAmed) - ROME - The nightmare scenario for Turkish diplomacy takes the following form: an exploding of Syria that has up to now been held together in the iron grasp of the Assad dynasty, leading to the risk of a partition of the country along lines of 'ethnicity', leading to an Alawi state bordering the Mediterranean, a Kurdish state between Turkey and Iraqi Kurdistan and a Sunni state on the remainder of the territory.

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