Frontline Turkey: The Conflict at the Heart of the Middle East
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| Rating | : | 4.19 (855 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1784538418 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-05-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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The Kurdish peace process finally collapsed in 2014 with the spill-over of the Syrian Civil War.With ISIS moving through northern Iraq, Turkey has declared war on western allies such as the Kurdish YPG – the military who rescued the Yezidis and fought with U.S. Its role is complicated by the long-running conflict with the Kurds on their Syrian border – a war that has killed as many as 80,000 people over the last three decades. backing in Kobane. Turkey is on the front line of the war which is consuming Syria and the Middle East. Frontline Turkey shows how the Kurds' relationship with Turkey is at the very heart of the Middle Eastern crisis, and documents, through front-line reporting, how Erdogan's failure to bring peace is the key to understanding current events in the Middle East.. In 2011, Erdogan promised to make a deal with the Kurdistan military wing, but the talks marked a descent into assassinations, suicide bombings, and the killing of civilians on both sides
After accepting the offer to write a daily column on Turkish foreign affairs, she became the youngest ever editor of Turkey's Radikal, the biggest center-left news outlet in Turkey, and the first woman to hold the role. After facing government censorship when covering the breakdown of the Kurdish talks, she resigned. Radikal was shut down by the government a month later – an unprecedented event that made headlines worldwide. Antony's College Oxford. She has nearly one million Twitter followers and extensive name-recognition in the field of Turkish politics and journalism. About the Author Ezgi Bas
She has nearly one million Twitter followers and extensive name-recognition in the field of Turkish politics and journalism. Ezgi Basaran is a Turkish journalist who made her name covering the Kurdish conflict - reporting on the ground in the fight between ISIS, the YPG, the PKK, and the Turkish state. After accepting the offer to