From: gonzo@nomail.net
Henry wrote:
> jan bojer vindheim wrote:
>
> > The kurds are demanding a federal government in Iraq, as against the
> > centralization favoured by the arabs.
> >
> > The kurdish fear is now that they will once again be betrayed by the
> > Americans.
>
> It will be interesting to see how this plays out, since the Turks will
> of course oppose to their utmost any sort of Kurdish political entity
> whatsoever--seeing (rightly?) such a thing, even a
> federated-Kurdish-state within the New Iraq, as a powerful magnet for
> the Kurds presently under Turkish 'control' whom Ankara has been
> repressing all these many years.
right
> Alas, the Kurdish fears of impending betrayal (once again) seem
> well-founded. The Turkish parliament may have thrown a spanner in the
> works of the American plan for the invasion of Iraq last year by
> forbidding, counter to the wishes of the government, massive US troop
> movements through Turkey (specifically, through Turkish Kurdistan). But
> the punishment they incurred for such temerity appears to have taught
> them a lesson. Even more importantly, however, the Turks are desperate
> to join the EU and I suspect that in the future they _will_ dance,
> happily or no, to whatever tune the Western fiddlers play.
The turkish desire for EUmembership count sin favor of kurdish rigths
al telast inside Turkey, but if the new UN resolution which does not
mention kurdish autonomy, provokes the iraqi kurds into declaring or at
least establishing independence both turks and iraqi ahiites might take
to arms againt the kurdish entity.
The kurds reasonably supported the invasion, expecting to ber rewarded
nyt he inading powers with certainly not less than the de afcto autonomy
they have enjoyed for 13 years. A failure by the occupants to secure
kurdish demands might lose Blair and Bush their main iraqi supporters.
--
jan bojer vindheim
http://vindheim.net
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