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Turkey’s reluctant fight against ISIS

Turkish policy is “to pretend that it is waging a war against IS, while at the same time following up on another goal, which is to destroy the PKK“. – Kerem Oktem, Professor, Centre for Southeast European Stud...

by Samson Faboye

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The abducted assyrians and the fight against the Islamic State

The Islamic State has released 19 Assyrians after they abducted an estimated 220 members of an Assyrian community in Northern Syria. The abduction is just one in a staggering series of attacks towards Christian communities in t...

by Bauke Danielle Schram

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Behind Turkey’s Peace with PKK

This is how the fairy-tail goes: “Suddenly Abdullah Ocelan, founder of the militant marxist PKK, decided to agree to negotiate with the AKP government. The party that once called for an independent Kurdish state, agreed t...

by Mohamed Firas Arfaoui

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