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Turkey’s Kurdish Tangle / Yavuz Baydar / PALOMAR-SUBSTACK

Substack, August 3, 2025 Do the best-laid plans go awry? That question is once again looming over Syria’s transition agenda, entangling Ankara in a growing...

Syrian Kurds face 30-day ultimatum from US and Turkey / Ragıp Soylu/MIDDLE EAST EYE

Middle East Eye, July 21 2025 US and Turkish officials tell Syrian Democratic Forces to stop dragging their feet and join Damascus government within weeks The United...

Turkey and SDF hold direct talks under US mediation/Ragip Soylu/MIDDLE EAST EYE

Middle East Eye, 3 June 2025 The talks address IS detainees, integration of SDF into Syrian military, and Kurdish governance in high-stakes negotiations over the...

Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Jordan aim to jointly tackle Islamic State, Ankara says/Tuvan Gümrükçü/REUTERS

REUTERS, February 5, 2025 ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey, Iraq, Syria and Jordan will take steps toward jointly combating Islamic State in the region and they...

Turkey ready to support Syria in managing Islamic State camps/ MSN/Reuters

MSN January 16, 2025 ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey is ready to provide support to the new Syrian administration for the management of Islamic State camps...

Week in Review. Turkey’s leveraging of Syria, Ukraine crises frustrates US, Europe  – Al-Monitor

"Erdogan disregards appeals by US for restraint in Syria and demands further concessions from Stockholm for agreeing to Sweden’s NATO admission" reports Al-Monitor.  Erdogan calls...

The Making of the Kurdish Frontier: Power, Conflict, and Governance in the Iraqi-Syrian Borderlands

Harith Hasan, Kheder Khaddour, Carnegie Europe, March 30, 2021,  image: William John Gauthier The Iraqi-Syrian border continues to be geopolitically restless. Kurdish parties have taken advantage...

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