Soner Çağaptay, director of the Turkish Research Program at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, on how Turkey's military incursion into northeast Syria fits into President Erdoğan's broader policies in the Middle East. Çağaptay is the author of three books since 2014 on Turkey's domestic and foreign policy, most recently “Erdogan's Empire: Turkey and the Politics of the Middle East” (IB Tauris/Bloomsbury). 

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