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Turkey Prefers Islamic State to Kurdish State

On June 16, Kurdish fighters in Syrian Kurdistan captured the town of Tel Abyad from the Islamic State (ISIS). The Kurdish victory in Tel Abyad prevents ISIS from having a direct route for importing fighters and supplies, and puts serious pressure on Raqqa, the de facto "capital" of the Islamic State.

As Rami Abdulrahman, the head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group,noted, the capture of Tel Abyad was "the biggest setback to ISIS since it announced its caliphate one year ago."