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Kurderne og krisen i Syrien set med udenrigspolitisk realisme

Tyrkiet har under Erdogan i stigende grad fjernet sig fra den kemalistiske tradition og i stedet vendt sig væk fra Vesten. Så selv om det er fristende, ville det være fatalt at smide Tyrkiet ud af NATO, for Tyrkiet vogter et strategisk vigtigt knudepunkt.

A member of the Kurdish Internal Security Force known as Asayesh stands guard during a protest in the northern Syrian town of Hasakeh on October 12, 2019, against the Turkish offensives on Kurdish-held towns. - Turkish forces and their Syrian proxies kept up their assault on Kurdish-held border towns in northeastern Syria on Saturday targeting the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a key US ally in the five-year battle to crush the Islamic State (IS) group, on the fourth day of an offensive that is drawing growing international condemnation. (Photo by - / AFP) Fold sammen
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