Weekly Tracker: November 23-29

TURKEY - Report 23 Nov 2014 by Murat Ucer and Atilla Yesilada
Executive Summary The war against ISIS is marked last week by a couple of victories in Iraq (the capture of Beiji refinery) and Syria (the pushback of ISIS forces from Kobane), but the overall progress is very scant and uneven. In the meantime, Assad and al-Nusra are capturing territory in Syria. PM Davutoglu succeeded in establishing a new relationship with the rookie Iraqi PM Abadi, which raises the likelihood of a major Kurdish oil and gas deal with Turkey. Biden went away empty-handed from Turkey, which makes the U.S. ponder as to how to deal with the recalcitrant ally. We list a few op...

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