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Why Turkey’s Military Is Killing Mules At The Iraqi Border

Dead mules near the Turkey-Iraq border
Dead mules near the Turkey-Iraq border sahinnz via Instagram

-OpEd- ISTANBUL — Turkey’s Roboski military outpost became infamous as the location of the 2011 bombing that killed 34 Kurdish youth, whom Turkish fighter pilots had mistaken for PKK rebel troops. Now we see the latest news about Turkish soldiers killing mules, not men, in the same area near the Turkey-Iraq border. According to Ferhat […]

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Is Turkey Planning A Military Intervention In Syria?

Parading in Ankara
Parading in Ankara Tolga Akmen/London News Pictures/ZUMA

Since soon after the conflict began in 2011, Turkey has always been fiercely opposed to Damascus. Now opposition elements of al-Qaeda across the border may be another reason to act.

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