What Drives Turkey's New Syria Stance? A Fear of Two Kurdistans
Soner Cagaptay
CNN Global Public Square
May 23, 2012
When the Syrian uprising began last spring, Turkey initially stayed behind Washington. It shied away from criticizing the regime of Bashar al-Assad, instead asking al-Assad to reform.
When Damascus refused, however, Ankara moved ahead of Washington, taking an aggressive posture against al-Assad and suggesting it was ready to take action to force him to step down.
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