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Austin Bay: Will post-Assad Syria acquire a neo-Ottoman Turkish yoke?

In late summer 2012, Syrian Prime Minister Riyad Hijab denounced his boss, dictator Bashar al-Assad, and fled to Jordan. Hijab also pledged allegiance to what diplomats called “the anti-Assad rebellion,” a jumble of ethnic, religious and political groups that actually reflected the fragmented Levantine demographics that breed friction when Syria supposedly experiences peace. When asked […]

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