My enemy’s enemy–Turkey’s stance on Islamic State. OSW COMMENTARY NUMBER 198/24.02.2016

In the context of the civil war in Syria, Turkey has been accused of intense co-operation with Islamic State. The accusations have been coming for some time from the West, and also from the Turkish opposition and the Kurds. The Russian government has also joined in the accusations over the past few months.

Facing the fourth foreign fighters wave. What drives Europeans to Syria, and to Islamic state? Insights from the Belgian case. Egmont Paper 81, March 2016

‘A bizarre phenomenon,’ Der Spiegel concluded, after trying to figure out why young people left Germany to become foreign fighters in Syria. The magazine painted a portrait of two thirty-somethings with similar backgrounds and the same hobby – martial arts. One became director of a martial arts school in Hamburg, the other became a terrorist poster boy in Syria.2

Handbook to the collection of British pottery and porcelain, in the Museum of Practical Geology.

Mode of access: Internet.

Parthian pottery from Seleucia on the Tigris /

Bibliography: p. xii-xiii.

Certain aboriginal pottery from southern California,

"Bibliographic notes": p. 46.

History of ancient pottery : Greek, Etruscan, and Roman /

Includes bibliographical references.

The old china book, including Staffordshire, Wedgwood, lustre, and other English pottery and porcelain,

"List of views, American, English & miscellaneous. By English potters": p. [254]-283.

History of ancient pottery, Greek, Etruscan, and Roman /

"Bibliography of ancient pottery": v.1, p. xix-xxxvi.

The ceramic art of Great Britain from pre-historic times down to the present day : being a history of the ancient and modern pottery and porcelain works of the kingdom and of their productions of every class /

Mode of access: Internet.

Architectural pottery;

Mode of access: Internet.

Bowl

Pottery, Islamic, Abbasid Caliphate; 2 33/64 in.x 7 43/64 in.; earthenware; polychrome luster-painted on opaque white glaze

Bowl with Fish Motifs

Pottery, Islamic, Ilkhanid; 5 in.x 11 17/64 in.; stonepaste; molded and glazed