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Old 09-02-2003, 05:51 PM   #4
Timber Loftis
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Originally posted by antryg:
The really horrible part of this is that the US has to keep looking over it's shoulder so that Turkey doesn't "liberate" the Kurdish part of Iraq. I guess they feel it better if they (ie Turkey) oppresses the Kurds instead of Iraq. Kurds fighting against Turkey and Iraq as they attempt to carve out their own homeland is a very real possibility as soon as US troops leave Iraq.
Or sooner. A Kurdish state would most certainly annex part of Turkey -- so Turkey has a strong vested interest in preventing a Kurdish state, and was explicit at the outset that such a thing would *never* happen.
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