Balances among Kurds in Syria, Regime Opponents and Turkey: Relations Pattern at the Crossroads of Conflict-Stability

The transition period in the Middle East brought up not only democratization demands, but also the relations depending on fragile factors for a long time in the region to the agenda. After the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, wide-scale transition scenarios including the change of borders and regimes in the Middle East started to be discussed again. The fact that the Arab Spring was not limited with the demands for democratization and turned into a revolutionist character led to questioning the alliances formed in the Middle East in the last 30 years. The opposition movements, which came out against the oppressive regimes with demands for democratization and for living under humanitarian conditions, after a while started to inevitably continue their movements on ethnical and sectarian lines.