Bassam Barabandi is a former Syrian diplomat and the co-founder and Director of External Relations for People Demand Change. He has worked in the diplomatic service of the Syrian Government for 14 years before leaving the Syrian Embassy in Washington DC in 2013. He has a BA in political science and public administration. Barabandi has written extensively on the Syrian conflict and has had work published in journals such as Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, MEI, The Atlantic Council, and The Atlantic. He has conducted interviews with BBC, Al-Jazeera, Al-Arabiya, Sky News, France24 and other media outlets.
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It is not possible to talk about Arab-Turkish relations without indicating that this relationship remained linked to the Ottoman Empire and its relations with the Arabs, despite the passage of more than a hundred years since its end. However, the relationship between Turkey and the Arab countries has not yet reached the stage of psychological and political balance, since there was a great estrangement between the two sides for a
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There has been no political, economic, or social communication between Iran and Syria since the beginning of the past century, as the Syrians and Iranians have suffered from instability and the spillover
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It is not possible to talk about Arab-Turkish relations without indicating that this relationship remained linked to the Ottoman Empire and its relations with the Arabs, despite the passage of more than
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