by Asharq Al-Awsat | Aug 23, 2013 | Business
Kuşaklı, Turkey, Reuters—Each night, a stream of beaten-up cars and trucks weighed down with blue jerrycans rumbles along the muddy lane, ferrying fuel smuggled into Turkey from over the border in Syria. The thousands of liters of diesel that make their way by cover...
by Soner Cagaptay | Jul 13, 2013 | Opinion
In recent months, Turkey has done the unthinkable, launching peace talks with the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), an organization Ankara designates as a terrorist group. An important motivation for this breakthrough has been Turkey’s Syria policy. Turkey is pursuing...
by Karabekir Akkoyunlu | May 16, 2013 | Majalla Blogs
On May 11, two powerful car bombs ripped through the Turkish town of Reyhanlı on the Syrian border, killing at least 51 people. This was not only the worst cross-border spillover of the Syrian conflict to date—it was also the deadliest terror attack in Turkey’s recent...
