Will Turkey invade Iraq?
I hope not, although that question incessantly hovers over a deteriorating situation along the border between the two countries. In recent days, clashes involving Turkish troops and a Kurdish extremist group known as the PKK have killed dozens of Turks and militants. Several Turkish soldiers have wound up as hostages.
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At least three scenarios peer through the internecine fog of the Palestinian imbroglio, which last week edged dangerously close to a civil war: reconciliation, co-existence and conflict.
First – and least probable – is the possibility that the major forces, Fatah and Hamas, will make nice. After all, Hamas burst onto the scene, cloaked in Islamic [...]