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Nov 3 2009, Marco Villa

A decade ago, the Turkish military was on the Syrian border. Both Middle Eastern nations were not a war both tensions hampered cooperative relations. Tensions due to Syrian claims over the Hatay Turkish region which is populated by Arabs and has only...

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