#Turkey: the current state of affairs - 7 tweets from Associate Fellow, Fadi Hakura. Click this tweet for the thread.
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1. ‘As Turkey becomes more involved in Syria, we are seeing the instability there crossing the border and impacting security.’
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2. ‘Erdogan was one of the main players who took sides in the Syrian conflict to accelerate the downfall of Assad in Syria.’
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3. ‘He brought Turkey deeper and deeper into the conflict, which has produced the negative blowback we see today in Turkey.’
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4. ‘His two front war against the PKK and Islamist militants is taxing the Turkish intelligence and security forces.’
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5 'Erdogan's determination to install a centralized exec. presidency may increase instability in an already polarized society’
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6. ‘Turkey's security approach will not resolve its mounting political, foreign policy and economic challenges.’
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7. ‘This has to be balanced by greater democracy and human rights for a credible long term solution.’
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