Sinan Ekim is a research assistant at the Istanbul Policy Centre. He was previously with the Istituto Affari Internazionali in Rome.
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Published in: openSecurityErdoğan, Syria and the Kurds: be careful what you wish forA complex political triangulation links the Turkish president with the Syrian imbroglio and the Kurdish question, but his political target is receding.
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Published in: openSecurityTurkey, Kobane and the Kurdish questionThe US wants Turkey to join the military effort against Islamic State at Kurdish-dominated Kobane, across the Syrian border—but Ankara’s focus is the Kurds within its own.