DAESH: Documenting a Modern Heresy, Interview with Belkıs Kılıçkaya
Of course; people imprisoned during the Iraqi invasion turned from typical insurgents into militants with a clear agenda when they got out.
The End of the Turkish-American ‘Alliance’ after the Failed Coup?
The American-British initiative to invade Iraq, executed with a “coalition of the willing,” and its disastrous consequences for millions of Iraqis and the wider Middle East, including Turkey, provides a tragic cautionary tale against the dangers of asymmetric alliances with unilateral decision making.
PKK Setback in Nusaybin
Later, it tested the rural reactions of security forces along the Iraqi border to desynchronize their power and finally rurally based PKK terrorists were sent to urban areas around mid-October 2015.
How Can Turkish-Iranian Commonalities Outweigh the Areas of Disagreement?
During the Iran-Iraq war, as Sunni Arab states and Western powers united behind the Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, Turkey maintained a neutral position.
The Troubling Legacy of the Sykes-Picot: A Century-Old Chaos in the Arab Middle East
Inter-state wars likewise exploded among a number of Arab states as in the case of Iran-Iraq war (1980-1988) and the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait (1990).
ISIL: Horror and Terror Revisited
The most aggrieved parties from this situation have been the Syrian and Iraqi peoples, of course.
Why “November 13th” can not and should not become a French “9/11”
As a truly Hobbesian State, America had the military power to invade Irak on its own even if they tried, mostly for diplomatic reasons, to build the largest “coalition of the willing”: At the end, out of the 48 Nations officially supporting the Bush administration in its “war against terror”, only three nations (The United Kingdom, Australia and Poland) offered limited military support on the Iraqi front.
The Syrian Crisis and Turkey-EU Relations
Of course, all refugees fleeing into Europe are not Syrians, there are many Iraqis and Afghans among them, as well.
