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The Turkish Grand National Assembly has previously passed several cross-border operation bills giving the government the authority to extend its war with the PKK across the Iraqi/Turkish border.
National Archives, FO 371/13037/E2106, 23 April 1928. In the late 1920s, the early Turkish Republic followed a policy of deliberate destabilization of the border region in order to gain time for propagating, imposing and solidifying their ideological and political claims in the yet-undemarcated frontier. In the western stretch of the border, the Afrin region, indirect cross-border activities of the Turkish state took the form of providing material and ideological support to the local bands and militia groups through local Turkish nationalist organizations. As for the eastern stretch of the border, the binxet region, Turkish state agents either undertook direct action or capitalized on tribal rivalries, working through a state-sponsored network of pro-Turkish and anti-French coalition of Arab and Kurdish tribesmen. These groups entered the Turkish territory and then supported cross-border attacks, plundering the French posts or the local population on the Syrian side.
Alawi-dominated coastal region has also not been included in the war maps of the regime.
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Altuğ, S. The Syrian uprising and Turkey’s ordeal with the Kurds. Dialect Anthropol 37, 123–130 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10624-013-9302-5
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