Turkey’s Kurdish obsession explains Putin’s gains and US strains

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2021/10/13/turkeys-kurdish-obsession-explains-putins-gains-and-us-strains/

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Editor’s Note: Turkey’s historic failure to find democratic solutions to Kurdish ethnic demands has created a deeply insecure and chronically irrational Turkish political culture, precipitated the end of the U.S.-Turkish strategic partnership, and pushed Ankara to work with Moscow, writes Ömer Taşpınar. This piece was originally in Responsible Statecraft.

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      • https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2021/10/07/turkeys-kurdish-obsession-explains-putins-gains-and-us-strains/