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One of Schanzer’s colleagues offered a somewhat different assessment, noting that Erdoğan was burned by “the PR disaster from their earlier leniency [towards] the Islamic state militants,” and has since adopted a strategy of backing other Islamist groups to prevent the Kurds from gaining strength in..

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