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Re:Social media shutdown in Turkey by Iv on Friday November 04, 2016 @02:36AM (#12870760)
The changes in Turkey have happened pretty recently and as Turkey is a NATO member (where some nukes are located) and is a crucial player in Syria, most other NATO members look away when this kind of things happen.

I expect huge diplomatic backlashes when the situation in Syria stabilizes. But I'm a bit of a dreamer.

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Re:Social media shutdown in Turkey by toyg on Friday November 04, 2016 @09:49AM (#12872492)
Indeed you are. Syria will not "stabilize" for a long time, for the simple fact that Turkey went for a land grab (motivated mostly by anti-Kurdish strategies, but hey, a land grab is always a good thing in itself, right?) that will remain an issue of contention for decades, regardless of how the civil war is settled. Turkey needs a weak Syria, and everybody (US, Russia) needs Turkey. We have just created yet another Kashmir.
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