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Ivan Eland  Senior Fellow and Director of the Center on Peace & Liberty, The Independent Institute

Helping Turkey Create a Safe Zone Is Not a Good Idea

Posted: 07/27/2015

The United States and Turkey have reached an agreement, long sought by the Turks, to establish a safe zone in Syria to insulate Turkey from the multi-sided civil war in Syria and to provide a sanctuary to which many of the two million Syrian refugees now in Turkey can be repatriated. In return, the Turks are now conducting air strikes against ISIS and also will provide a much closer air base than the United States heretofore has had to attack ISIS in Syria, making U.S. and coalition air strikes more effective against the group. Yet, on balance, this may be a bad deal for the United States.http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ivan-eland/helping-turkey-create-a-s_b_7880258.html