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Originally Posted by Itse

Blackall also is correct.

Anything in the Middle-East is a long story with many angles

EDIT: The Guardian on the same topic of what Erdugan is doing and why. Probably a better source

http://www.theguardian.com/commentis...P=share_btn_fb

The middle east is ultra complicated right now.

You have Turkey, Iran, Saudia Arabia, Israel, and formerly Syria and Iraq all as major military powers. Egypt and Jordan are lesser powers. Pretty much all of them hate each other. Meanwhile, the West and Russia, for strategic and economic reasons, are attempting to maintain and establish relationships with these groups.

Until recently you had alliances between the groups: Israel/Turkey, Egypt/SA/Jordan, and Syria/Iran. These have all broken down recently. Meanwhile the conflict between Russia and the West has accelerated and Yemen, Iraq, and Syria have all become open battlefronts.