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Turkey: For Ankara, Fears of a Kurdistan Rising | EurasiaNet.org

Turkey: For Ankara, Fears of a Kurdistan Rising
July 30, 2012 - 9:10pm, by Yigal Schleifer

The continuing violence and bloodshed in Syria may be troubling, but for Ankara, the real worry right now is actually about what's happening in the place where things are quiet, across the border in Syria's Kurdish region, where the Assad regime has now ceded control to local militias as it tries to consolidate its forces in order to protect Aleppo and Damascus from rebel forces.

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