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...Aaron Stein, an American expert on Turkish foreign policy, has dubbed the TB2 “the Toyota Corolla of drones”....
...“They want to engage in this process as much as Turks do.”...
...“While the Turkish defence industry isn’t going to collapse, it will be inconvenienced,” said Aaron Stein, a Turkey expert at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia....
...Mr Erdogan needs to satisfy the millions of Turks who have been restlessly awaiting an operation against Syrian Kurdish militants....
...A new commission, Crème brûlée on a Tree by Bushra El-Turk, offered an entertaining performance-art piece to a similar recipe....
...Aaron Stein, director of the Middle East programme at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, a US think-tank, said Turkey could simply sit out the US withdrawal and then act....
...Aaron David Miller, a vice-president at the Woodrow Wilson Center, said the US, in particular, was being drawn back to business as usual by a combination of Saudi oil and money and “the magical thinking...
...Aaron Stein, an analyst at the Atlantic Council think-tank, said Turkey had misread the US mood by reneging on a previous deal....
...Instead, Mr Stein says the Turks have “limited their goals in Syria to hold back Kurdish ambitions and create facts on the ground for a Trump administration.”...
...“There’s been a 1,000 per cent increase in the improvement of relations — and it’s still terrible,” says analyst Aaron Stein, at the Atlantic Council in Washington....
...“The Turks could get control of this situation — and now, they’re absent.”...
...Aaron Stein, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, has documented an Isis network from the southern town of Adiyaman that has been linked to at least four Isis attacks in Turkey....
...Aaron Stein, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council who has tracked Isis operations in Turkey, said all security forces had to prioritise which threat to focus on....
...Turkey is looking to the “narrowing of its goals in Syria”, says Aaron Stein at the Atlantic Council in Washington....
...“This would be a total nightmare for the US,” said analyst Aaron Stein, of the Atlantic Council in Washington. “What happens if Russia kills a Turk? They would be killing a Nato member.”...
...Aaron Stein, a non-resident fellow at the Atlantic Council, said the Kurdish conflict is now occurring on two fronts: mountain areas, where the PKK is attacking security forces with bombs that cause mass...
...“This is a first,” says Aaron Stein from the Royal United Services Institute, a UK think-tank....
...Turkey awoke on Wednesday to tanks on the streets and curfews in its southeastern cities – sights many Turks hoped had been consigned to history....
...But she added: “We’ll continue to talk to the Turks and entertain any specific proposals that they may have.”...
...What makes little sense, says Aaron Stein, an associate fellow at the London-based Royal United Services Institute, “is why the Islamic State would hand over its leverage to Turkey without getting anything...
...Official figures put the number of Turks joining the group at 400-500, but some foreign diplomats estimate the true level at the “low thousands”....
...In his comments on Wednesday, the prime minister said he could not confirm reports that a further 15 Turks had since been captured by Isis....
...abducted on Tuesday – the sheer numbers make that very difficult,” said Aaron Stein, an associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute think-tank in London....
...“The Turks are in a moment of strength and we are in one of weakness.”...
...The Turks and Iranians are against an independent Kurdistan breaking away from Iraq because that could lead to greater unrest and demand for independence among their own Kurdish populations....
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