able to bear its share of the
burden in the biggest global
refugee crisis since World War
II. ...
THE TROUBLE WITH TURKEY: ERDOGAN, ISIS, AND
THE KURDS BY
MICHAEL J. TOTTEN
Turkey, a key member of
NATO, has so far chosen to sit
out the war against ISIS.
Instead, it is at war with
Kurdish militias in Syria, the
only ground forces so far that
have managed to take on ISIS
and win.
Turkey fears and loathes
Kurdish independence
anywhere in the world more
than it fears and loathes
anything else. Kurdish
independence in Syria, from
Ankara’s point of view, could
at a minimum escalate a threedecades-long conflict and at
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