[Turk2]

If Turkey has been oppressing these people so much, why would they want their brothers in Iraq to join the club too? They're anti-American (as all leftists are) and call PKK terrorists people but even these guys are able to come up with useful ideas every once in a while. (The translation could have been better but I am a little short of time and the guy is a politician that talks with strange sentences.)

[dennisw]

How much oil is up there?

[meridia]

Turk2, all I can say for now is: WOW!

This is just amazing! I'll check back for some educated commentary later on tomorrow. THANKS for finding and posting this, it's incredible.

[Arkinsaw]

Hopefully Saddam will think about this a leetle bit. Bet this worries him more than anything else he's heard lately.

[ChemistCat]

I hope our leaders here in the U.S. can see the wisdom of this method of solving the Iraqi problem. OBVIOUSLY it was a huge mistake to make Iraq in the first place. The Republic of Turkey would do the people in that area only good. The greater resources that would be made available to all will do more to integrate the Kurds with Turkish mainstream society than any amount of rhetoric from Amnesty International. Ottoman Empire Bump! No. Republic of Turkey bump! It can only be better than it was before.

[Shermy]

Ottoman Empire - 1914

Here's my solution. IMHO there should be a lot more red, though.

[a_Turk]

NTV MSNBC has an English page bro.

[vladog]

That whole area, including all of present day Iraq was part of the Turkish Empire. That Empire fell less that 100yrs ago. By Muslim thinking that was only yesterday. We could do worse than to encourage the Turk`s taking back some of their lost Empire. (Could not be run any worse that it is now.)

[vooch]

I guess Instanpolis is sending out some trial balloons to test US public opinion if the Turks decide to slaughter another 40,000 Kurdish villagers.

pray tell, why can't 40% of the population of the Turkish Pennisula (ie the Kurds) have normal civil rights ?

Why does the turkish state need to expend so much energy in supressing 40% of its population ?

[eleni121]

So what else is new... There is money and promises being thrown around big time in addition to the fractious nature of Kurdish politics.

Turks will never live in peace as long as compensation and acknowledgement of atrocities, pogroms, and genocide are not made. The Turks need to come to grips with their past just as Germans and Japanese are beginning to. Are they up to it? Probably not - just denial denial denial.

No justice no peace!