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When ISIS Is An Excuse For A Police State

As the Turkish government’s refusal to fight ISIS and its pressure on Kurds create growing dissent, the only answer it finds is more repression.

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GAZIANTEP, Turkey — The Kurdish refugees circled around me in Turkey on the edge of the so-called Islamic State, where part of Syria used to be.

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