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Turkey's Upcoming Elections Will Be Shaped by Bargain with IS
October 28, 2015
Turkey's approaching national elections are being shaped by the Islamist government's support for the Islamic State ("IS"), which has generated severe social cleavages over IS suicide bombings inside Turkey, state clampdowns on media freedoms, and the government's air campaign against the country's Kurdish population.
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Turkey's Islamist Authoritarians Step up Media Repression in Approach to G20 to Summit
October 27, 2015
Taking a page from Vladimir Putin's authoritarian playbook in Russia, Turkey's Islamist authoritarian government continues its assault on media freedoms, combining vigilante violence, judicial impunity, and financial penalties to stifle media and speech freedoms in the approach to hosting next month's G20 Summit.
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Islamic State Expands in Syria as Internationals Remain Disunited
October 27, 2015
The Islamic State ("IS") continues its territorial onslaught in Syria, enabled by Western Powers' indecisiveness, Russian and Iranian unilateralism, and Turkish perfidy.
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Carter Plan Says Defeat of Islamic State Depends on Agreement over Assad's Role
October 27, 2015
A proposal by former US President Jimmy Carter for ending the war in Syria argues that the defeat of the Islamic State ("IS") is absolutely contingent upon consensus among the five key peace-broker nations (the US, Russia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey) on a transitional role for Bashar al-Assad.
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Global Jihad Comes to Bangladesh
October 27, 2015
The Islamic State ("IS") claimed responsibility for a deadly sectarian attack on a Shiite religious procession in Dhaka, the most recent of a spate of lethal episodes signaling that jihadi Islamists are expanding their global theater of operations in South Asia.
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