Now, that being said, the political situation there right now is increasingly hellish. What's going on there now is the result of a very long game that has been played out since before the modern Turkish republic, founded by Ataturk.
http://www.britannica.com/place/Middle-East
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_East
Now, that being said, the political situation there right now is increasingly hellish. What's going on there now is the result of a very long game that has been played out since before the modern Turkish republic, founded by Ataturk.