Turkey’s War in Syria: Prevention or Expansion
Turkey’s War in Syria: Prevention or Expansion
Author(s): Arzu Yılmaz
Subject(s): Military history, Recent History (1900 till today), Military policy, Peace and Conflict Studies
Published by: Transnational Press London
Keywords: Turkey’s War in Syria; Turkey; Syria; war;
Summary/Abstract: The international community have mostly perceived Turkish military interventions in north of Syria as the “legitimate right [of Turkey] to protect its borders”, since the Syrian crisis that later deteriorated into a proxy war has revealed a dramatic decline in Middle Eastern states’ capacities to politically and militarily control their territorial peripheries.
Book: The Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria: Between A Rock and A Hard Place
- Page Range: 117-132
- Page Count: 16
- Publication Year: 2020
- Language: English
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