Erdoğan’s Kurdish Gambit
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has conceived of an audacious plan to enhance Turkey’s regional standing and extend his political dominance at home. He envisions a realignment between Turks and Kurds that underpins a strategic partnership for exploiting the region’s last untapped energy resources.
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ISTANBUL – Conflict in the Middle East threatens not only the security of many of its states, but also their continued existence. Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, and others, now gripped by sectarian fighting, risk fragmenting into ethnic sub-states, transforming a region whose political geography was drawn nearly a century ago.