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“Turkey considers the SDF’s expanded physical presence in Syria a threat, according to Jacob Shapiro, the director of analysis at Geopolitical Futures, U.S.-based think-tank. ‘Turkey is nervous about a Syrian Kurdish state empowering or emboldening Kurdish separatists on the Turkish side of the border,’ he says.”