Turkey's buffer bluster
Erdogan threatens Syrians for NATO points, and other news
Turkey has the second-largest army in NATO (that’s right—larger than Britain, France, or Germany) and its economy is the fastest-growing among G20 countries. Yet this week President Recep Tayyip Erdogan threatens to go to war against a stateless minority group—the Kurds—occupying an area inside Syria’s northeast pocket.
Already the Kurdish-led Syrian D…
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