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The World This Week: Turkey changes course on Kurds and IS

Turkey changes course on Kurds and IS

01/08/2015

BBC World Service - The World This Week, Turkey changes course on Kurds and IS

Turkey has torn up a peace deal with Kurdish separatists - and is also attacking IS.

Turkey has performed a U-turn on its own Kurdish separatists and IS - tearing up a peace deal with the Kurds and now attacking IS positions.

Turkey has performed a dramatic U-turn in two highly sensitive areas. After months of appearing to tolerate the group calling itself Islamic State, it's begun air strikes on IS positions.  But it's bracketed these with attacks on Turkish Kurdish separatists based in Iraq. It's a big gamble by President Erdogan, after elections in which he lost seats he'd needed to boost his own power. Also in this podcast: President Obama goes to Africa and lays down the law.  How did he get away with it? Why we love newspaper sleaze stories - though aren't as shocked as we were. The other side to big-game hunting. And why you don't need to be alive to be a leader.
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