Turkey: The Missing Link?
... Syria in late July 2015 prompted Ankara to join the fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS). What is the significance of the decision? On July 20, 2015, a suicide bomber attacked the Kurdish Amara Culture Centre in the city of Suruc, killing 32 people and injuring another 100. Two days later, in Ceylanpinar, Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) activists killed two Turkish policemen whom they suspected of working with ISIS. The following day, on July 23, a skirmish between ...