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Can Turkey Afford An 'Easy Win' in Syria? - Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East

Can Turkey Afford An 'Easy Win' in Syria?

By: Okan Muderrisoglu posted on Friday, Jun 29, 2012

We are in the ruling party's lobby in the Grand National Assembly. Phones ring incessantly with calls from Adana, Gaziantep, Kilis, Osmaniye and Sanliurfa (Turkish provinces close to the border with Syria). The MPs are trying to respond to questions from their constituency while simultaneously attempting to learn the background of the plane crisis themselves.

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