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Turkey’s Kurdish Initiative May Affect Syria's Kurds - Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East

Turkey’s Kurdish Initiative May Affect Syria's Kurds

By: Cengiz Çandar for Al-Monitor Turkey Pulse Posted on April 14.

The timing of the process Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government has begun with the goal of solving the nearly 100-year-old Kurdish issue that everybody defines as the country’s No. 1 problem is obviously linked to 2014-15 elections calendar. Nobody objects to the view, and there seems to be a consensus on this, that the process is also tied to developments in Syria and their effects on Iraq.

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