Turkey's "Terror-Free" Initiative: A Complex Geopolitical Landscape

... for the SDF to go to war with the transitional government forces in Damascus might make the discussion between Turkey and the SDF fail. The intended "path to a solution" in Turkey is impeded by all these alternatives. If it turns out that Abdullah Ocalan has limited authority over the SDF and the Syrian Kurds, political pressures may force President Erdogan to terminate this reconciliation, which under present circumstances offer him no political advantages either at home or abroad. Given that the idea has been rejected from the beginning by successive ...