Taner Edis was born and educated in Turkey, and is associate professor of physics at Truman State University, Missouri, USA. His latest book is An Illusion of Harmony: Science and Religion in Islam.
US President Donald Trump's impulsive decision to pull American troops out of northern Syria and allow Turkey to launch a military campaign against the Kurds there has proved utterly disastrous. But a crisis was already inevitable, given the realities on the ground and the absence of a coherent US or Western policy in Syria.
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