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The Syrian Uprising Turkish-Syrian Relations Go Downhill
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Aras, Damla |
| Copyright Year | 2012 |
| Abstract | As Syria sinks deeper and deeper into the throes of civil war, the decade-long honeymoon between Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkønma Partisi, AKP) and Bashar al-Assad’s regime has all but ended. Fearing the possible spread of the revolt to Turkish territory, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoðan and Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoðlu cold-shouldered their hitherto feted ally, openly siding with the rebels. They sheltered thousands of refugees fleeing government repression, including scores of military defectors, conferred with opposition leaders, and even threatened military intervention should the regime continue its brutal crackdown.1 In August, Erdoðan warned that “we reached the end of our patience”;2 three months later, he lauded the “massacred” rebels as “martyrs,” prophesying that “the Syrian nation will reap the results of its glorious resistance.”3 As President Assad ignores these admonitions, has Turkey reached the limits of “soft power” and will it revert to the instruments of hard power to find stability on its southern border? |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://www.meforum.org/MiddleEastForum/media/MEFLibrary/pdf/3206.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
