Frontline Turkey: The Conflict at the Heart of the Middle East

• The must-have story of Erdogan, Syria and the Kurds
in the Middle East
• New insight into the real roots of the Middle Eastern
conflict – the Kurdish question
• Author an internationally known specialist on Turkey
with extensive media experience and multiple platforms
for promotion

Turkey is on the front line of the war which is consuming Syria
and the Middle East. Its role is complicated by the long-running
conflict with the Kurds on their Syrian border – a war that has
killed as many as 80,000 people over the last three decades. In
2011 Erdogan promised to make a deal with the Kurdistan military
wing, but the talks marked a descent into assassinations, suicide
bombings and the killing of civilians on both sides. The Kurdish
peace process finally collapsed in 2014 with the spill-over of the
Syrian Civil War. With ISIS moving through northern Iraq, Turkey
has declared war on western allies such as the Kurdish YPG –
the military who rescued the Yezidis and fought with US backing
in Kobane. Frontline Turkey shows how the Kurds’ relationship
with Turkey is at the very heart of the Middle Eastern crisis, and
documents, through front-line reporting, how Erdogan’s failure to
bring peace is