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Will citizenship help refugees? | The National

Will citizenship help refugees?

National Editorial

July 4, 2016 Updated: July 4, 2016 05:16 PM

Turkey is in desperate need of fresh allies and new friends across the region. Since 2011, president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has made a number of risky decisions on the direction the region was heading, supporting the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and Hamas in Gaza, and taking a militantly anti-­Assad stance in Syria. The country is facing spill-over violence from Syria in the form of ISIL attacks from an isolated regional position.

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