Top Lawmakers Threaten Sanctions Over Turkey’s Double Game in Syria

Turkey, amid an alphabet soup of regional players in and around Syria, is the biggest and also the most stubborn.

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Turkish-backed Syrian forces pictured on October 7, 2019. AP

Two senators, Chris Van Hollen of Maryland and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, are threatening to impose a raft of sanctions on our treaty ally Turkey unless it comes to a “sustained ceasefire” with the American-backed Kurdish fighters of the Syrian Democratic Forces now parked in northeastern Syria. Those terms would also include a demilitarized zone. 

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