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ANALYSIS
“Turkey is neither a friend nor a foe to the United States, but Turks should not suffer, plus devastating the Turkish economy would adversely affect American allies in Europe,” tweets CFR’s Steven A. Cook.
“A Turkish-Kurdish conflict in northern Syria would be a disaster for all sides. It would torpedo United Nations’ efforts to end the Syrian war, allow the Islamic State to revive in eastern Syria, and, worst of all, bog down Turkey and the Kurdish-dominated Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), both U.S. allies, in yet another iteration of a ‘forever war’,” Asli Aydintasbas writes for the Washington Post.
In Foreign Affairs, Colin P. Clarke and Ariane M. Tabatabai argue that Iran will fill the vacuum left by the United States in Syria.
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