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Emile el-Hokayem

A former researcher of the International Crisis Group, Emile el-Hokayem is a specialist in the Middle East security issues at the Henry L. Stimson Center.

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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, (…)