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This article explores under which conditioning factors and by which diffusion mechanisms have the Syrian civil war has spread to Turkey between 2011 and 2016 via ISIS and the YPG. In the first part of the article, the background of the diffusion of the Syrian civil war will be discussed using four mass-level conditioning factors: structural, political, economic-social, and cultural/perceptional. In the second part, the conflict’s direct diffusion mechanisms with the help of the analytical tools of bad neighborhood(s), interaction opportunities and ties and conflict characteristics, and indirect diffusion mechanisms such as new tactics or strategies, new ideas and delegitimization of previous approaches, revised expectations about the likely behavior of key outside actors, and revised expectations about the chances of success will be used to investigate their various effects on Turkey via ISIS and YPG.
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The situation deteriorated so much in Darah that the clergymen even declared eating the meat of cat and dog would be allowed under these circumstances.
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Parlar Dal, E. (2018). The Contagion of the Syrian Civil War into Turkey Under the Impact of ISIS and YPG Cases: Conditioning Factors and Diffusion Mechanisms. In: Oktav, Ö., Parlar Dal, E., Kurşun, A. (eds) Violent Non-state Actors and the Syrian Civil War. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67528-2_11
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