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Omer Taspinar

Omer Taspinar is co-director of the Brookings Institution’s Turkish Program and professor in the School of Advanced International Studies at the Johns Hopkins University.

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“Syria loves Ankara, but will the relationship last?”
by Emile el-Hokayem, Omer Taspinar, Peter Piot
3 May 2005
In 1998, Turkey was gathering its troops at the border with Syria so that the latter’s help to the PKK would cease in the Turkish Kurdistan . This threat led Damascus to expel Oçalan, who was later arrested in Nairobi. Those were the beautiful days of Turkey-Israel-U.S. co-operation. Today, (…)

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