Foreign Policy Research Institute A Nation Must Think Before it Acts What’s Turkey Trying to Achieve in Syria?

What’s Turkey Trying to Achieve in Syria?

The National Interest

Nature abhors a vacuum, and this is never truer than on the Syrian killing fields.

With the Islamic State’s surviving fighters relegated to small pockets of the most austere bastions of the Syrian desert, the Turkish army likely sees an opportunity to capture Syria’s northern border, in order to project power, consolidate territory and expand its own sphere of influence throughout the near abroad.

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