Why Syria's Fragmentation Is Turkey's Opportunity
By Soner Cagaptay and Parag Khanna
Oct 24 2012, 9:57 AM ET
One-and-a-half years into Syria's civil war, the latest chapter is the armed hostility between Syria and Turkey, once a friend of the Assad regime. A century ago, it was Western powers that dismantled and carved up the Ottoman Empire after World War I. Today, Turkey can place itself in the driver's seat of shaping the borders of the emerging Near East map.
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