It is nothing more than a dream. If anyone tries to invade Turkey for any claim on the Southeastern Turkey, they will find the Kurdish & Turkish soldiers killing them. If we close our southern borders, Iraqi Kurds will begin to die from hunger. And that is what "the others" want.
Then we will see photos of UN soldiers throwing food and clothes to the hungry Kurdish people. The same plot as in Afghanistan and in Africa.
I guess the 'others' you are mentioning are Imperialist powers. Thats very convenient... blame it all on those evil minded imperialist. Have you ever seriously thought about whether or not your state is an imperialist as well? Imperialism is not a monopoly of western powers you know.
- Kurdistan in the Northern Iraq
Mountains to the Kurds, deserts to the Arabs, oil to the "Western Alliance".
That is what the Iraqi people will get, nothing more. Sitting on oil deposits will bring the Iraqi Kurds no prosperity, but slavery. Tribe leaders like Barzani & Talabani, will suck and distribute all the petro-dollars to their own tribes. What will you produce ? What will you sell to the world ?
same old nonsense. You have the inability to appreciate complexities around strategic interests. Somehow to you think it is all about stilling. Coming from an Ottoman tradition I guess you are justified in thinking that is the way things work in the modern world. HOwever, since you claim to be forward thinking, let me remind you that Capitalist world system works in on different dynamics. I suggest you go do some serious reading. That is off course presuming you are capable of understanding it in the first place. But I continue to have faith in humanity.
- Iraq - Turkey relations
Turkey will always help the Iraqi people. We gave food and shelter to the Pesmerges, when Saddam made the ethnical cleansing in the Northern Iraq. I employed 2 illegal refugee pesmerges just to help them, and gave them the same wage as the Turks earn, although they were ready to work for the half of that wage. Where were the "Western Alliance" then. Who gave those WMD to Saddam ?
This is an blatant lie..... Turkey was forced to open up its borders. Period. Turkey attempted to cover up Saddams gassing of Kurds by preventing INternational experts to investigate the damage. It was you president Turgut Ozal who said that it will be a great insult to TUrkish experts if international experts came into Turkey to investigate the chemical attack. Conveniently Turkish experts found no proof whatsoever of any chemical attack.
Furtheremore, It was Kurds in the north that rose to the occasion and opened their arms to our southern brothers and sisters. Even then Turkish state prevented Kurds from helping them. From my village alone 2 truck load of supplies were sent for Kurds, however none of them ever reached kurds. instead they were sent to Turks from Bulgaria.
The Iraqi officials first come to us for technical and commercial co-operation, because they know that we are the only neighbour country, who does not have any malicious plans for Iraq.
That is another lie. There have plenty of evidence to show that Turkey intended to prevent Kurds from gaining anything. The fact that you advocate autonomy for Turkmens in Iraq yet you see Federation too much for Kurds, blatantly demonstrates your deep rooted bias against Kurds.
- Iraqi Turks
Iraqi Turks belong to the unified Iraq. Autonomy for them is not a matter of dispute. They have the right to live in peace.
What about autonomy for Kurds in the North? Don't you even feel the need to be a bit consistent? At least when one seeks a certain objective for ones own people, one should support other people demanding similar objectives.
We do not have time to lose with all the problems in the Middle East, we are a forward looking nation.
A nation that lacks any kind of critical self reflection can never go forward. Someone that does not have the courage to come to terms with its past and current problems is not capable of taking one step forward.