Top tips for new teachers and senior leaders working during lockdown.Increased sense of community amongst kids at schools.How Clare has experienced COVID as a mother and teacher.Balancing being a school leader and a researcher.Clare’s research on educational leadership in multi-academy trusts.In this podcast, listen to Clare and Teacher Toolkit founder, Ross McGill discuss: Remember, the podcast is available on iTunes!Ĭonnect with Clare on Twitter or watch our conversation below. Our 107th interview is with Clare Keating Roberts, teacher, an academic and soon-to-be EdD graduate from Cambridge University. How do school leaders work in multi-academy trusts? He has a degree in Music Production and is a graduate of Leeds Beckett University. He is responsible for our Soundcloud and iTunes channels and is the production manager for podcasts. This, they conclude, will weigh on Washington’s thinking as it assesses how much opposition to put up against Erdogan’s plans to go ahead with a ground offensive in Syria.Joshua McGovernJoshua McGovern has been working with Teacher Toolkit since March 2018. Some analysts have noted that the US needs Turkey to end its objections to inviting Sweden and Finland into Nato. The Washington Institute for Near East Policy’s Soner Cagaptay remarked to the same publication that “Ankara has just about aligned all-stars for an incursion”. Under the current circumstances, Russia or the US might be able to impose limits on Turkish actions, but they can’t stop them entirely.” “This fits with both long-standing Turkish assumptions about its security interests and Erdogan’s need to look strong in advance of elections scheduled for June. “Turkey is quite serious about the current Syria offensive,” the Middle East Institute’s and St Lawrence University’s Howard Eissenstat told NatSec Daily. "We hope our arguments will be heard in Ankara and other ways of resolving the problem will be found," Lavrentyev said, following a round of Syria talks with Turkish and Iranian delegations in Kazakhstan. Senior Russian negotiator Alexander Lavrentyev said on November 23 that Russia has asked Turkey to refrain from a full-scale ground offensive in Syria, given that it could spark an escalation of violence. "We are continuing the air operation and will come down hard on the terrorists from land at the most convenient time for us," he warned. In a speech to members of his Justice and Development Party (AKP) in parliament on November 23, Erdogan said Turkey was more determined than ever to secure its border with Syria by establishing a "security corridor". Turkey has launched three large-scale operations with allied Syrian rebel groups in northern Syria since 2016. Russia, which unlike Turkey supports Syria’s Damascus regime, also has forces in Syria. He also said Russia and the US were not doing enough to deter Turkey from launching a ground incursion in Syria. SDF commander Abdi was reported by Al-Monitor on November 22 as saying that the Istanbul attack was "perpetrated by Syrian opposition groups operating under Turkey's control". The SDF subsequently accused Turkey of using the Istanbul bombing as a ‘false flag’ pretext to launch a cross-border offensive. The PKK said it would never target civilians. On November 13, Turkey was quick to blame Kurdish groups for a bomb attack on Istanbul shopping thoroughfare Istiklal Avenue, which killed six and injured 81.īoth the PKK and YPG, however, denied involvement. Washington is wary that moves by Turkey to attack the YPG and secure military goals in Syria could undermine the fight against Islamic State. A difficulty is that the US has for several years been allied with the YPG to secure the fighters required to crush Islamic State in Syria and Iraq. With Turkey in an economic hole, the Turkish leader is widely seen as currently taking any opportunity to burnish his credentials as a strong, nationalist leader ahead of elections he must face within seven months.Īnkara contends that the YPG is a wing of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK)-a group designated as terrorist by Turkey, the EU and US-that has fought an insurgency, demanding autonomy in southeastern Turkey, for decades. The strikes were "only the beginning", said Erdogan. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, meanwhile, warned that the four days of airstrikes on Syria and Iraq that had taken place so far were a precursor to a cross-border ground operation against the Syrian Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG), which provides most of the SDF’s fighters. The SDF said the strike killed two of its fighters. The US defence department said on November 23 that Turkish airstrikes on Syria had "directly threatened the safety of US personnel" working in the country to combat jihadist group Islamic State.Ī Turkish drone attack against Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) commander Mazloum Abdi's main headquarters north of the city of Hassakeh on November 22 endangered US troops, it added.
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