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Turkey Warns Kurds About Kirkuk Control
NY Times ^
| January 26, 2005
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Posted on 01/26/2005 2:19:19 PM PST by neverdem
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Kirkuk, a multiethnic city with a Kurdish, ethnic Turkish populations, Arab, Christian -- but Kurds have been the strongest group in the city since the fall of Saddam Hussein. Maybe AP frequently omits the byline because the writers took English as second language.
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posted on
01/26/2005 2:19:20 PM PST
by
neverdem
To: neverdem
``This could lead to an independent Kurdish state,'' Basbug said. ``There could be clashes, these clashes could trigger an internal war in Iraq.''The Turks ought to read Bush's speech last week if they are even remotely harboring the thought of attacking any attempts by the Kurds to establish their own autonomy. Bush isn't going to let the Kurds get stomped on like Clinton did.
To: 1LongTimeLurker
And it would kill any chance of getting into the EU.
To: neverdem
Mere saber rattling, and singing to the choir.
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posted on
01/26/2005 2:28:10 PM PST
by
bill1952
("All that we do is done with an eye towards something else.")
To: 1LongTimeLurker
Note to the Turks: Your message should be read as a call for more Kurds to move to Kirkuk. If any group in the region deserve our support and a free country, it is the Kurds.
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posted on
01/26/2005 2:29:29 PM PST
by
Truth29
To: neverdem
The same Turks who refused us permission to invade Iraq from their territory, meaning that the Sunni strongholds in the Northeast could not be pacified by the 4th Infantry Division in the opening days of the war?
Turkey's hands are covered in the blood of every American and Kurd killed by a Sunni holdout who otherwise would have been wiped on the unopened Northern front.
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posted on
01/26/2005 2:38:13 PM PST
by
Bohemund
To: Bohemund
And by "Northeast" I meant "Northwest."
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posted on
01/26/2005 2:47:30 PM PST
by
Bohemund
To: neverdem
Turkey Warns Kurds About Kirkuk Control I'm sure I'm only person here who thought the headline itself was funny.
(I'm a heartless poli sci jerk.)
To: Truth29
Yes the Kurds the most loyal people in Iraq.... Even after we screwed them...To bad we can't convince them to take over the country(Iraq) but we'll probably screw them again by putting them under an Iraqi government and then patronize them for not falling in lock step with the new regime's policies. Nice article though...
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posted on
01/26/2005 2:54:02 PM PST
by
sulla07
To: neverdem
The perfidious Turks lost their chance to have a say in Iraq's future when they refused to open the northern front in 2003. The kurds need to tell Turkey to shove it, and we need to stand behind the Kurds.
-ccm
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posted on
01/26/2005 3:18:54 PM PST
by
ccmay
(Question Diversity)
To: neverdem
If I were King... The Kurds would run the entire country of Iraq.
To: AmericaUnited
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posted on
01/26/2005 3:57:12 PM PST
by
maine-iac7
(...but you can't fool all of the people all of the time." Lincoln)
To: AmericaUnited
If I were King... The Kurds would run the entire country of Iraq.
If I were king, there would be no Iraq -- Kurdistan, Shite-Basra, and greater Bagdad. Keeping Iraq together makes no more sense than keeping Yugoslavia together. Message to the Turks: "Make my day."
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posted on
01/26/2005 4:21:30 PM PST
by
sefarkas
(why vote Democrat-lite???)
To: 1LongTimeLurker
Gobble gobble. What a Turkey!
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posted on
01/26/2005 4:31:41 PM PST
by
CDB
To: sefarkas
Agree! Everyone gets happy.
To: Truth29
Exactimundo.
The Kurds deserve control over their own destinies. Besides, Turkey blew whatever chance it had to influence the situation by barring the 4th Mech ID from moving into northern Iraq - thus contributing to the very difficult the US and free Iraqis face today. But now, the Turks have found their cojones and threaten to invade a free Iraq!
I won't even begin to mention the massacre of Armenians and Syriac Christians by the corrupt and failing Ottoman Empire.
Kurdistan forever!
That having been said, the Kurds would be wise to cut a deal with the Turkomen peoples in northern Iraq. It gives Turkey one less reason to interfere.
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posted on
01/26/2005 4:59:18 PM PST
by
opocno
(France, the other dead meat)
To: 1LongTimeLurker
Bush isn't going to let the Kurds get stomped on like Clinton did.
Actually the last stomping of Kurds was under Bush I right after Desert Storm when they rebelled. By the end of Bush I and through the Clinton misery there was a no fly zone over the Kurds and they did pretty well.
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posted on
01/26/2005 5:06:51 PM PST
by
PFC
To: sefarkas
Ditto to Sefarkas. Iraq is at least three countries (and the old Ottoman empire held it as three provinces). We need to stand with the Kurds - who are grateful, loyal, and tough. Since there are strong Kurdish minorities in Turkey, Syria, and Iran, a viable Kurdistan will cause those countries enough worries to keep them out of other mischief.
To: Bohemund
"The same Turks who refused us permission to invade Iraq from their territory, meaning that the Sunni strongholds in the Northeast could not be pacified by the 4th Infantry Division in the opening days of the war? Turkey's hands are covered in the blood of every American and Kurd killed by a Sunni holdout who otherwise would have been wiped on the unopened Northern front."
No use in my trying to write this same sentiment in my own words... Since it is exactly what I feel I have just reproduced it here as my "Amen". I hope that the Kurds inundate the place.
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posted on
01/26/2005 5:30:00 PM PST
by
Spirited
To: PFC; 1LongTimeLurker
Bush is entirely untrustworthy on this just like Daddy.
Much of this board is crediting him with values he does not possess. Specter and Gonzales is just the beginning, unfortunately.
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posted on
01/26/2005 5:33:18 PM PST
by
Spirited
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