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Turkey teeters?
Reader comment on item: Forget Syria, Target Iran
Submitted by Dan Schnittker (United States), Sep 10, 2013 at 15:12
Dr. Pipes, given Putin's offer to "manage" the Syrian wmd's, could this not legitimize and entrench both Russian hegemony, and the Syrian and Iranian regimes, causing a weakened Turkey to swing back to the East, and away from Sunni Arabs?
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Daniel Pipes replies:
That sounds a bit ambitious to me.
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