Finishing the Job: Turkey Preparing For Military Operation in Syria

...,” including putting pressure on the PKK’s sponsors among the bloc’s potential members, could also affect and exacerbate Turkey’s already complicated relations with those of its allies from the North Atlantic alliance that continue to support SDF/YPG units in Syria (these are primarily the U.S., France, and the Netherlands). Rolling out the “Turkish buffer” Ivan Timofeev: Ukrainian Crisis, Turkey and Eurasia: Who Wins? Turkey previously ran several operations against Kurdish left-wing radical ...