Publication

Nov 2014

This commentary discusses Turkey's pursuit of three goals in Syria in 2014: eliminating Bashar al-Asad, weakening the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) and defeating the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). The author argues that these three goals are incompatible, at least in the short term.

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Author Nathalie Tocci
Series IAI Global Turkey in Europe Commentaries
Issue 16
Publisher Istanbul Policy Center (IPC)
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