The Syrian quagmire, in which both the Islamic State and the Kurds have been fighting for territory, has now sucked in Turkey. Last week’s ISIS attack on Turkish soil, Kurdish gains along the Syrian border and the surprise advance of the secular and liberal pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic Party, the HDP, in recent elections — which clipped the parliamentary majority of President Erdoğan’s neo-Islamist ruling party — have conjoined into an explosive state of affairs. To boot, NATO, which is obliged to defend a member state under siege, has now been drawn into a three-way fray in which Turkey …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
