in support of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who Ankara says must leave office," the Financial Times observed.

Baghdad has turned on Ankara because it gave sanctuary to Tasheq al-Hashemi, Maliki's vice president and the most senior Sunni official in Baghdad.

He fled the country amid accusations of plotting against the Shiite-dominated coalition in power. He denies the charges.

Maliki's vendetta against Hashemi, who's accused of running death squads to kill Maliki's allies, is widely seen to be part of a crackdown against the premier's political rivals.

Sunni-dominated Turkey has repeatedly refused Iraqi demands it extradite Hashemi back to Shiite majority Iraq and relations have plummeted.

Turkey's warming links with the KRG undoubtedly have a lot to do with Ankara's objective of silencing Turkey's own Kurdish separatists, the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, whoFriday, February 15, 2013

Cover Reveal: Controlling the Dead by Annie Walls

With the help of her new companions, the path Kansas follows leads to more knowledge of the ever adapting famished.

The team finds help in unlikely places, meeting more survivors, and discovers the possibility of a new beginning.

When the team experiences a devastating loss, Kansas struggles to keep her humanity from fading and distorting like that of the surviving society around her. It begins with knowing who to trust and who to leave behind. First, she must trust herself – she won't make the same mistakes twice.

As the answers to her questions are revealed, Kansas begins to understand the knowledge comes with a heavy price and great responsibility of controlling the dead.

In a trilogy plot thick with twists and