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choie

(4,111 posts) Sun Oct 13, 2019, 02:30 PM Oct 2019

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Can anybody recommend a credible source

that provides the history that led up to the current Syria/Kurds/Turkey horror?

Thanks in advance!
Choie

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Can anybody recommend a credible source (Original Post) choie Oct 2019 OP

Mother Jones had several excellent articles by Shane Bauer likesmountains 52 Oct 2019 #1

Thanks likesmountains! choie Oct 2019 #2

Type #sdf into twitter search.n/t applegrove Oct 2019 #3

Thanks Applegrove! choie Oct 2019 #6

A historian just posted this summary in the New York Times. Eugene Oct 2019 #4

Thanks so much Eugene! choie Oct 2019 #5

likesmountains 52

(4,098 posts)

1. Mother Jones had several excellent articles by Shane Bauer

Reply to choie (Original post)

Sun Oct 13, 2019, 02:36 PM

Oct 2019

https://www.motherjones.com/author/shane-bauer/

choie

(4,111 posts)

2. Thanks likesmountains!

Reply to likesmountains 52 (Reply #1)

Sun Oct 13, 2019, 02:43 PM

Oct 2019

N/t

applegrove

(118,695 posts)

3. Type #sdf into twitter search.n/t

Reply to choie (Original post)

Sun Oct 13, 2019, 03:35 PM

Oct 2019

choie

(4,111 posts)

6. Thanks Applegrove!

Reply to applegrove (Reply #3)

Mon Oct 14, 2019, 11:18 PM

Oct 2019

Eugene

(61,900 posts)

4. A historian just posted this summary in the New York Times.

Reply to choie (Original post)

Sun Oct 13, 2019, 10:19 PM

Oct 2019

No, Kurds and Turks Are Not ‘Natural Enemies,’ Mr. Trump

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/13/opinion/kurds-turkey-Syria.html

Excerpt posted here: https://www.democraticunderground.com/1016240863

Fact: They have not been warring for centuries, as Trump asserts. It's a more complicated mess of intolerant nationalism, political opportunism, and a good helping of U.S. policy bungling.

choie

(4,111 posts)

5. Thanks so much Eugene!

Reply to Eugene (Reply #4)

Mon Oct 14, 2019, 11:17 PM

Oct 2019

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