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Tag: Kurdish militias

Turkey weighs challenges, benefits of NATO membership

by Tatiana Kanunnikova January 13, 2020February 18, 2020

Early in December, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called on NATO allies to brand the Kurdish militias who fought against Islamic State (ISIS) in Syria as terrorists. The matter concerns the People’s Protection Units (YPG), which has links with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). The latter is an outlawed political and militant organization, the initial […]

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