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Oct 2012

Turkey's government is instrumentalizing its border tensions with violence-wracked Syria to divert public attention away from a deteriorating economy, growing inflation, shortages of goods, and rising internal instability. The initial success of this flag-waving diversion and the political stakes now involved make it increasingly difficult for Ankara to walk away from what could become a crisis.

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Author Yossef Bodansky
Series ISPSW Publications
Issue 209
Publisher Institut für Strategie- Politik- Sicherheits- und Wirtschaftsberatung (ISPSW)
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