Turkey’s twin fight against ISIL and the PKK
19.01.2016 - 17:42
Last Tuesday’s deadly terrorist attack in Sulthanahmet in Istanbul could amplify alarm within the Turkish government, which currently faces two different and equally challenging threats Observers speculate that Ankara may have been tolerating the radical Islamic State movement ISIL because it counterbalanced Kurdish resurgence in northern Syria, and diverted the PKK Kurdish rebels and possible sympathisers within Turkey. Before Sulthanahmet, ISIL’s targets were politically removed from the government.