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November 1, 2019

Strategic Lessons for Israel from the Turkish Intervention in Syria

Erdogan’s accidental favor to Putin.

While it is impossible to know with any certainty, Gershon Hacohen surmises that Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan did not expect his invasion of Syrian Kurdistan to lead Bashar al-Assad and his Russian and Iranian allies to advance into nearby areas. If so, Ankara inadvertently handed Moscow a victory:

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