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1 – 10 of 29Months of tensions between their respective parties have paralysed the region’s cabinet and also played into a crisis with Turkey. Talabani in late April sought to communicate…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB278907
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Turkey has dropped its insistence on regime change in Syria as it seeks to defuse a domestic crisis over Syrian refugees and to contain Kurdish aspirations. Normalisation could…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB272532
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IRAQ: Kurdish concession may launch a tricky dialogue
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-ES225359
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He was denying a Syrian complaint to the UN that Turkish soldiers were among about 100 fighters allowed to cross into Syria on February 13. Turkish artillery has pounded targets…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB208455
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SYRIA: Turkish pressure on the Kurds will increase
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-ES229120
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President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had signalled strongly that an incursion against the Kurds, whom he regards as terrorists linked to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in Turkey…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB229272
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Since the breakdown of the peace process with the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in July 2016, Erdogan’s policy of all-out violence has to outward appearances smashed the Kurds’…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB247101
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SYRIA/TURKEY: Ankara will escalate against the Kurds
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-ES257917
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IRAQ/TURKEY: Nationalists will reject intervention
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-ES230604
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The plans are currently the subject of intensive discussions with the United States. For Erdogan, the safe zone is seen as key to boosting his flagging domestic popularity and…