Turkey’s complex reasons for fighting in Syria and Iraq
For months, the US has been building up an alliance in the Middle East aimed at dislodging ISIS from its strongholds in both Iraq and Syria. But these efforts have been complicated in recent weeks by one of Washington's oldest allies in the region: Turkey. The Turkish government is lashing out against factions currently battling […]Ivan Watson, Isil Sariyuce, and Mohammed Eyad Kourdi write for CNN:
For months, the US has been building up an alliance in the Middle East aimed at dislodging ISIS from its strongholds in both Iraq and Syria.
But these efforts have been complicated in recent weeks by one of Washington's oldest allies in the region: Turkey.
The Turkish government is lashing out against factions currently battling ISIS. Ankara has been engaged in a very public war of words with the government in Iraq. At the same time, the Turkish military has been bombing US-backed Kurdish militants in Syria.
