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How does the PKK act like a state in Syria?
Nihat Ali Özcan, PhD01/11/2012

  U.N. special envoy Lakhdar Brahimi called for a truce in Syria during Eid al-Adha, or the Feast of the Sacrifice. His call was received with ...

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Prospects for federalism in Syria and for Kurds
Nihat Ali Özcan, PhD25/10/2012

  The political situation in Syria is changing. Bashar al-Assad’s army maintains operational capacity, but it has lost most of northern Syria. ...

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Syria and Turkey’s exit strategy
Nihat Ali Özcan, PhD18/10/2012

  The best exit strategy for Turkey is to hope for the creation of a negotiation table in Syria. In Syria, as the number of dead and refugees...

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Syria and neo-Ottoman artillery fire
Nihat Ali Özcan, PhD11/10/2012

  As internal and external complications kept piling up, a mortar strike coming from a country suffering from a civil war with no front line was ...

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Political Islam and Kurdish nationalism
Nihat Ali Özcan, PhD04/10/2012

  A number of Islamist Kurds are planning to stop supporting the AKP and establish a new party. Last weekend, Prime Minister Erdoğan demanded that...

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Where did the government make a mistake?
Nihat Ali Özcan, PhD27/09/2012

  Turkey will have three different elections in three years and the PKK will exploit this process. One year ago the negotiations between the PKK...

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The country off the agenda: Syria
Nihat Ali Özcan, PhD20/09/2012

  The bitter side is that the issue of Syria is progressively falling off the agenda of world public opinion. While the uprising in Syria turns...

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Turkey and the unity of Iraq
Nihat Ali Özcan, PhD13/09/2012

  The problem in the region goes beyond hosting al-Hashemi or efforts to take the competition of Sunnis and Shiites as a reference point. Tariq...

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How can generals take initiative from the PKK?
Nihat Ali Özcan, PhD06/09/2012

  Arguments about the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) reminded me of an event that happened years ago. In 1989 PKK attacks increased and...

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What would be Iran’s reply to Turkey?
Nihat Ali Özcan, PhD30/08/2012

It won’t be a surprise to see that Iran would give a start to its covert operations, waking its “sleeper cells” and activating its old...

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