Nickolaos Mavromates
(Security Analyst- Historian)
Copyright: Research Institute for European and American Studies (www.rieas.gr) (Publication Date: 17 June 2014).
The Turkish consulate seizure in Mosul by men of the (Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant) ISIL terrorist movement has unleashed a discussion inside and outside Turkey about the role of Ankara's failed strategy in the region of the Levant and Iraq. A role that was mainly based in aiding terrorist organizations like Al Nusra and ISIL for its own grand designs. Initially meant in overthrowing Bassar al Assad regime and simultaneously curtailing any Syrian Kurdish PYD (Democratic Union Party) independence ambitions in the area. By mainly denying the capability of the Syrian aspirations uniting with their KRG brothers authority of Northern Iraq or by becoming a strategic reserve of PKK in the area of Turkish Kurdistan..... Read more
