In the 1990s, Turkey and Israel described their partnership as a strategic alliance. Their militaries trained together, their intelligence services shared information, their businessmen discovered each other's markets, and hundreds of thousands of Israeli tourists made Antalya and Istanbul their favorite destinations. Three decades later, the same two states regard each other with suspicion bordering on hostility, and in some Turkish and Israeli policy...
Until recently, the Kurds seemed largely on the ascent. The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in Northern Iraq was thriving as a semi-autonomous, de facto state in a federal relationship with Iraq under ultimate US military protection. The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in Turkey maintained a long-time military structure and continued to wage war against the Turkish government in pursuit of constitutional Kurdish rights as...
