Published: 22 March 2016
Last updated: 4 March 2024
Reconciliation with Turkey is stalled, possibly due to Israeli-Russian security interests regarding Syria, Lebanon and Hezbollah, as well as Russian hostility to Israeli-Turkish rapprochement.
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Against that background, see also:
Russia backs self-ruling Kurdish buffer state at Turkey’s back door – DEBKAfile report 18.03.16
Just four days after drawing down the bulk of Russian forces in Syria, Putin was quietly redrawing the Syrian map on federal lines, and planting Russian influence in its first semiautonomous region. DEBKAfile’s intelligence sources report that the Russian leader's hand was behind the establishment of the Syrian Kurdish federal region on March 17, at a meeting of Kurdish Democratic Union Party leaders in the Syrian town of Rmeilan. [Report and video]
Israel and Turkey inch closer together, but bombing won’t restore ties - Raphael Ahren - The Times of Israel 20.03.16
With sides still wary, increased cooperation and contacts in wake of suicide attack won’t necessarily give way to warmer relationship, experts say
Who exactly are ‘the Kurds’? March 1. 2016
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