Over the past decade, Turkey has pursued a “break and dent” strategy against the Kurds, by which the Turkish government seeks to dismantle Kurdish groups and push resistant factions into…
- Fehim Tastekin
- Al-Monitor
Turkey has now come to rely on this strategy outside its border, particularly in the northern Syrian region of Afrin.
Based on this approach, Ankara aims to “cleanse” all northeastern Syrian territories held by the People’s Protection Units, or the YPG.
Yet this “break and dent” strategy is futile, and the Mahkmour refugee camp in Iraq, set up by Turkish Kurds banished from their native villages more than two decades ago, is an…