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Operation Euphrates Shield: Goals and challenges

By Burhanettin Duran (The Daily Sabah)- Having launched operation Euphrates Shield on Aug. 24, Turkey not only helped the Free Syrian Army (FSA) liberate Jarablus but also became directly involved in the Syrian civil war. After years of futile negotiations with Turkey's allies over a...

Assad, Kurds: change in engagement rules

By Abdullah Ghadawi (Zaman Al Wasl)- On the day the regime airplanes bombed three locations for the Kurdish People’s Defense Units (YPG) in al-Hasakah on Thursday of last week, the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was promising the supporters of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK)...

Syria's political solution needs 6 more months: OPINION

By Adnan Abdelrazak (Zaman Al Wasl)- Since Turkey changed its policy towards Syria the revolution, from threats and the possibility of reaching a confrontation for the sake of Syrians freedom and to bring al-Assad down, even if through the military branches inside, to the “more than...