A Test of Turkey's Pragmatism
Analysis
April 19, 2016 | 09:00 GMT Print
It appears as though Turkey has established its priorities in the Syrian civil war. Algerian newspaper El Watan said April 8 that Algiers has been mediating a back-channel dialogue between Syria and Turkey, a report that a Stratfor source has since corroborated. The discussions centered primarily on Ankara's concerns over the creation of an independent Kurdish state in Syria. The source, moreover, said Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu raised the same concerns on a March 4-5 visit to Tehran, during which the prime minister proposed a plan to communicate with Damascus about Kurdish containment in Syria.
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