After Turkey publicly criticized China for the first time over Beijing treatment of its Uyghur minority, it is irked over Ankara support for Uyghurs, writes
After Turkey publicly criticized China for the first time over Beijing treatment of its Uyghur minority, it is irked over Ankara support for Uyghurs, writes
The US wants the pressure to be kept on ISIS, but every time Ankara has an election cycle or a need to distract from some issue at home, it will use drone strikes and threats of conflicts in Syria.
Should the Turkish government make good on its threats to launch yet another military incursion into northern Syria, it would lead to a sharp escalation in violence in a country afflicted by a more-than-decade-long brutal conflict. Not only would Turkey’s military incursion have significant immediate effects on civilians and combatants in Syria, but it could also reverberate further throughout the region and world.
Nadim Bawalsa’s new book helps us rethink the right of return to encompass Palestinians who were prevented from returning to their homes by the British Mandate’s policies, well before the Nakba in 1948.