A crude neo-Ottoman imaginary:

Shared by a pro-gov’t columnist, Ömer Turan.

 
In Diyarbakir city, the informal Kurdish capital, a legacy of intense fighting between Kurdish rebels and the Turkish military.
If you donate enough, you can be listed as one of the state elders in Turkey as the Qatari leader did in Trabzon Akyazı Stadium.

 

 
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Dec. 24 that Turkey will never allow the formation of a new state in northern Syria
 
Ensconced in a battle for al-Bab, Turkey is already looking to march on SDF-controlled Manbij, President Erdoğan declares
 
More than 1,500 people were taken into custody over the last six months on charges of promoting terrorism on social media, the Turkish Interior Ministry said in a statement on Dec. 24.

After Turkey’s failed coup, a sense of fatalism has set in

 

President Erdoğan managed to hold on to power in July, but a crackdown on liberals and secularists has turned survival into a game of chance


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