Turkey's Islamists tried to topple Syria's Assad, its pro-secular military backed Syrian Islamists against his dad
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Few know the true story behind Syria's support for Kurdish militants fighting Turkey. Turkish academic Behlul Ozkan explains how and why Turkey's pro-military rulers backed an Islamist uprising in the early 1980s against the regime of Hafez al-Assad, leading Damascus to open its doors to the PKK.
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