Over the past couple of weeks, Turkey has announced some seemingly major changes to its approach to the war against the Islamic State. These recent news items include:
- An agreement with the United States to train and equip Syrian rebels
- Yalcin Akdogan and Sirri Sureyya Onder read a letter drafted in consultation with Abdullah Ocalan. The letter included an outline for future disarmament talks with the PKK. The letter was presumably altered (as was the venue chosen for its reading), after the PKK’s military leadership in Kandil vetoed the original text.
- Bulent Arinc told the AKP allied A Haber that Turkey was preparing for a major anti-IS offensive in March
- Turkey evacuated its personnel from the Suleyman Shah tomb; relocating the Tomb 180 meters inside Syrian territory, opposite the small border town of Esmeler (coordinates: 36°52’45.64″N 38° 6’21.08″E)
- President Recep Tayyip Erdogan visited Saudi Arabia’s King Salman, where he met with…
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