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This book provides a broad and comprehensive overview of contemporary Turkey. Placing the country and its people within the context of a rapidly globalizing world, the book covers a diverse range of themes such as politics, economics, international relations, the Turkic world, religion and recent historical background.

This article traces the interrelationship of the roles played by Turkey and by various Kurdish non-state actors such as the Kurdistan Regional Government, the Kurdistan Workers Party, and the Democratic Union Party, in the current turmoil in Syria and Iraq. It considers their varying perspectives on Islamic State and other jihadi groups, the tensions between the region's Kurdish non-state actors, and the differences between them in their relationships with Turkey. The background to these differences is explored, as is their impact on relationships with other actors, most notably the US. The article concludes by noting that Turkey as a regionally powerful and coherent actor, and the Kurds as a distinct ethnic group with aspirations to self-determination, will continue to be powerful elements in the region's politics.

"This article explores Turkey's shifting relationships with Baghdad and with the Kurdistan Regional Government. It argues that Baghdad's sectarianism led to a cooling of Ankara's relationship with Baghdad, while shared energy interests brought Ankara and Erbil closer together. It considers the impact of the threat posed by Islamic State on these relationships, and concludes that Ankara's stake in Erbil is ultimately likely to endure." (author's abstract)