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October 5, 2012

Turkey's Hidden Agenda in Syria

Con Coughlin, Daily Telegraph

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Syria might be getting all the blame for firing the first shot in the sudden eruption of hostilities on the Turko-Syrian border, but Tayyip Erdogan, the Turkish prime minister, can hardly claim to be an innocent party when it comes to stoking the fires of a conflict that retains the potential to ignite a regional conflagration.

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TAGGED: Bashar al-Assad, Syria, Turkey

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