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October 4, 2012

Neither Syria Nor Turkey Want War

Adrian Hamilton, The Independent

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You wouldn’t expect Turkey to take the mortar assault from Syria this week lying down. And it hasn’t. This is exactly what Western diplomats have feared from the start: a Syrian civil war that sucks in its neighbours and ends up in a full regional conflagration.

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