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Turkish gov't warns against sectarian spillover from Syria

"If the Syria resistance fails, there will be a face-off with the sectarian barbarians of Shah Ismail in Anatolia. Everyone should prepare for that." This tweet posted on Dec. 13 by Abdülkadir Şen, an academic at the Malazgirt University in eastern Turkey, started a serious debate and had a snowball effect in the country.