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US/Turkey Relations
By Charlie
Here’s a pretty good podcast from "Bloomberg on the Economy." It has radio host Tom Keene interveiewing Turkish Ambassador Nabi Sensoy about Turkey's economy, its relationship with the U.S. and the Armenian Genocide Resolution, and the country's clashes with the Kurdish PKK.
The interview has good background information key to understanding the current situation, and the precarious nature of the alliance.
Turkey has always been key to our relations in the Middle East, and keeping them on board for the War on Terror has been an essential US Policy goal. When the SF dropped in to northern Iraq during OIF I, one of their primary missions was to keep Turkey out of the war by getting the Kurdish Peshmegra to attack south, and only south. A large information gap will be the reaction of the Kurdish population in all states in the region if they see a free and flourishing Kurdish area in northern Iraq. Will they emigrate, or will they demand the same in Turkey, Iran, Syria, and Armenia?
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admit the ARMENIAN GENOCIDE!
We must think the future 20 years. Kurdistan is a Global reality.
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If it is a choice between Turks and Kurds there is no choice-the Kurds lose. Turkey is far more important than the Kurds will ever be.
Plus Turkey has a point. If we mean what we say than terrorism is terrorism and the PKK are a bunch of terrorists worthy of attack the same as AQI.
Sorry-an independent Kurdistan is just not in the cards-and that's a good thing.