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Items by Ahmet Vefa Rende
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Israel’s Druze policy in Palestine and Syria
Israel, with its small population, has a socially and politically fragile structure due to its different minority groups. The fact that Arabs are the largest minority group has led Israel to establish more careful relations with other groups and to try to strengthen the ties between these minorities and Jewish…
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Israel’s quest for strategic depth in the Horn of Africa through Somaliland
Somaliland attracts the attention of many states due to its geopolitical location. A former British colony, it borders Ethiopia, Djibouti and Somalia. Previously an autonomous region of Somalia, Somaliland gained its independence after 1991. With a dominant position on the Gulf of Aden, it is near the entrance to the…