Politics

Private American intelligence agency and forecaster, Stratfor, has predicted a military move into northern Syria by Turkey for 2016.  President Erdogan’s policy is to strengthen his popularity and that of the AKP, Turkey’s ruling party, by becoming increasingly more assertive in foreign policy, according to Stratfor. The information gathering, distributing and forecasting business also predicts a more widening rift developing between Russia and a resurgent Turkey.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is no fan-o’-Kurds, so to speak. Well, unless the Kurds you’re talking about are assisting in a lucrative business that involves the trafficking of illicit crude from Iraq to the port of Ceyhan. 

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“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” - George Santayana, The Life of Reason, Vol. 1

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