Mustafa Gurbuz is a research fellow at Rethink Institute and teaching Middle East politics at American University in Washington, DC. Anthony Wynne is a research intern at Rethink Institute and pursuing his studies at the School of International Service at American University in Washington, DC. https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/contributor/mustafa-gurbuz-anthony-wynne/rss en Fri, 26 Feb 2016 00:00:00 +0000 Mustafa Gurbuz and Anthony Wynne https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/community/2016/02/26/what-turkey-really-wants-in-syria https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/community/2016/02/26/what-turkey-really-wants-in-syria In order to avoid the Syrian quagmire and secure its border, Turkey must make peace with the PKK, writes Mustafa Gurbuz and Anthony Wynne. Washington should dissuade Syrian Kurds from attacking Syrian rebel forces and convince them that PYD advances on Sunni land upset both Turkey and Arab nations as a whole.