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The Kurdish-Turkish dynamic is interesting given that the biggest supporter of Kurdish independence in Iraq is Turkey. Not only politically, but by enabling thi
by stevenjohns 11y ago
The Kurdish-Turkish dynamic is interesting given that the biggest supporter of Kurdish independence in Iraq is Turkey. Not only politically, but by enabling things like financial independence through the Kirkuk-Ceyhan oil pipeline for the KRG to transport and sell oil outside of Iraq's SOMO.
I understand that Turkish Kurds lean towards the HDP/PKK, which is independent from the KDP/Peshmerga that the Turkish government supports in Iraq, but it's still interesting to try to figure out what Turkey's end goal is after all of this.
- dogma1138 11y agoTurkey is wants to dump its own Kurdish problem on Iraq, this isn't that dissimilar to what Israel tried to do with its attempts to give back Gaza and the West Bank to Egypt and Jordan during both peace processes both of which refused to take those hornets nests back. Egypt under Sadath exiled most of the Muslim brotherhood to Gaza between 56 and 67 and didn't want them back, and Jordan was already a Palestinian state demographically ruled by the last of the Hashinites with the Bedouin minority serving as their henchmen and didn't want to increase thier already quite hostile population by a third.