Abstract:Employing the concept of the security dilemma, the article aims to assess the situation on the Turkey-Syria border and discusses perspectives of Turkey's humanitarian intervention in northern Syria. In the first section of the article an analysis of Turkey's foreign policy and its implications on Syria's crisis is provided. The second section deals with arguments for and against the intervention. Later on, international law and military provisions are discussed as well as the possible implications of an interv… Show more
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