Oliver North was the U.S. military officer involved in the Iran-Contra scandal of the CIA back in the 1980s
Days after U.S. Vice President Joe Biden’s visit to Turkey was announced for Aug. 24, a major attack by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) shook the Turkish city of Gaziantep near the Syrian border
Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım has given a green light to Bashar al-Assad remaining in a transitional government in Syria for a peace settlement, in a major shift in Turkey’s Syria policy
As the heat of the trauma has slowly started to cool down, an analysis of the bigger picture concerning the failed coup attempt of July 15 in Turkey is becoming possible
Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmuş on Aug. 17 described Ankara’s Syria policy as “a source of many sufferings for Turkey today.”
The Turkish government’s approval of a European convention just four days before the failed bloody military coup attempt of July 15 could mean more bad news for those involved in the attempt and seeking political asylum in the EU or the United States
It seems that Turkey’s slow turn away from its failed Syria policy has been completed with the bloody coup attempt of July 15, following deals to normalize relations with Israel and Russia in late June
The Syrian town of Manbij was taken back from the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) in the late afternoon of Aug. 12
I know this is a hypothetical question to answer – perhaps strategists like the analysts at the Office of Net Assessments of the U.S. Department of Defense at the Pentagon could answer
