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KurtNYC

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15. A good question - what's in this for Turkey?

Reply to CJCRANE (Reply #14)

Mon Sep 22, 2014, 05:33 PM

Sep 2014

Sometimes these proxy wars can siphon off the extremists in a country like Turkey. There is also money, weapons and oil which they can get their cut on. I feel like the Russia/Ukraine thing plays into this to also -- NATO gets a foothold in Syria while Russia gets one in Ukraine. Turkey is a NATO country and ousting Assad gets Russia out of Syrian ports on the Mediterranean (or starts WWIII...).

I know Turkey, like other neighbors, want Assad out but I have seen nothing about what they expect or want to happen to Syria if or when Assad is gone.

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