[a_Turk]

Even though there is enmity between the Kurds and the Turks

If all 10 million Turkish Citizens of Kurdish origin were to take a piss at once, we'd all drown over there.

No, there is no enmity between Kurds and the rest of the citizenry, hell I know this from 1st hand experience with Kurdish neighbors in Istanbul, and knowing that many politicians and businessmen in Turkey are Kurds. One of them, Turgut Ozal, was President for Pete's sake.

Kurds and Turks are mixed together very well. Seperating them would be a nice mess, but then the people supporting the terrorist baby killing suicide bombing PKK obviously don't mind a mess..

[hunter112]

Turk, as you've noted, many on this thread write out of ignorance, and I include myself at the top of that list. I can certainly accept your contention that most of what Americans know about Turkey and the Kurds comes from flawed sources. It wouldn't surprise me to see an anti-Western agenda being advanced by the reporting done from the area, especially if the letters "CNN" are in the corner of the TV screen!

I'm also fully willing to believe that the majority of Turks and Kurds get along, I had only imagined enmity as a result of the difficulties I have read about over the last decade or two, again, probably through biased sources. And I can appreciate the troubles with having an immature "nation" on your border, one needs only to see our own example here with Mexico to appreciate the situation of a sovereign nation unable to care for itself, trying to leach the life out of its more advanced and prosperous neighbor.

That said, what happens to the Kurds in Iraq? Clearly, they have suffered greatly from Saddam Hussein, surely, after the destabilization of the Bagdad regime, they will want some recompense for their trials. It may be unrealistic to expect them to wait for Turkey to annex them, no matter how reasonable the idea. Will anyone have the power to guide the Kurds of Iraq towards an acceptable settlement of their political situation after the dust dies down from the collapse of Saddam Hussein?