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Blog: Kurdish people in Turkey are being left to face Ankara's army alone due to a lack of political support from Kurdish leaders in Iraq, warn activists.
Comment: Eradicating Islamic State is apparently one of Trump's priorities, but if this means cooperation with the Syrian Kurds, relations with Turkey may suffer as a result, writes Yvo Fitzherbert.
Comment: For Turkey and the region, the modern era will be defined by proxy conflicts and economic and political polarisation, writes Numan Kurtulmus.
Comment: Why are as many as 20,000 Turkish-trained and armed Syrian rebels currently doing the bidding of Turkey against the PYD in Afrin? asks Sam Hamad.
Comment: The main stumbling block behind this ceasefire is that the main brokers, Russia and Turkey, have different definitions of who the "terrorists" are, writes Tallha Abdulrazaq.
After five years of tensions between Syria's regime and Turkey which almost bubbled over into out-and-out war, Prime Minister Binali Yildirim appears to be offering Damascus an olive branch.
Comment: The future of Erdogan's Turkey largely depends on the Kurdish struggle, but many of these struggles will now take place in the parliament and not in the mountains.
Comment: As Turkey carves out an area in northern Syria under Operation Euphrates Shield, James Denselow asks what kind of vision Ankara has for the space it is slowly securing.
Comment: For both Turkey and the YPG, the fight against IS in northern Syria is serving to prop up two very different wider agendas, writes Sam Hamad
Joseph Daher warns that despite the Syrian official opposition’s claims, Turkey’s normalisation with Assad and its targeting of Syrian refugees reinforce that Erdogan is no ally when it comes to honouring the objectives sought by the 2011 uprising.