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Isis tests KRG alliance with Turkey - FT.com

Isis tests KRG alliance with Turkey

By Piotr Zalewski

For years, northern Iraq was one of Turkey’s biggest headaches. Its mountains provided a safe haven for the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), the militant group that has fought the Turkish army for three decades. Its transformation into a wealthy, secure and autonomous state seemed a potentially dangerous example for Turkey’s own historically oppressed Kurdish minority.

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