Please don't type in all CAPS, it's the equivalent to YELLING, let alone hard to read, thank you.
guess these Turks will never learn the true meaning of "democracy" !
Assuming that the Turks can be held at bay, what do you think can be done about those parts of Kurdistan now occupied by Iran and Syria? (Both of those countries are much weaker than Turkey.)
I agree Turkey is exetremly scared of a Kurdish state. I have a friend who is half Turkomen and half Kurdish and he is very anti Kurdish Indepedance. He even has negative thoughts toward the Kurdish as a whole because he thinks all they want is to break up countries and take their land. When I question him about it he was sad of the treatment of Kurds in his country of Turkey, but was more fearful of the Kurdish getting a state and found that it would be destablizing for the country he now loves Turkey. He is a young college student in Istunbal(sp).
Saladin was a Kurd wasn't he? Got any more of those?
"hmmmmm ...!!! But hang on Mr. Prime Minster, if the Kurds in Turkey are treated fairly, and are given their full political and cultural rights, why would they want to join an Asian country? "
They wouldn't want to join an asian country... they'd declare the independent state of kurdistan and then claim to be european.
Rich, is your friend talking about privately owned land?
Kurdo, if the Kurdish people are receptive to freedom and democracy as you make them out to be, would Rich's friend and also full blooded Turks still retain full ownership rights over their private land should it come within the jurisdiction of a Kurdish government?
As far as the US, I don't see why we should give Turkey such special consideration, after the way they refused to help in the Iraq liberation. Maybe Erdogan should go talk to his buddy Chirac.
As far as federalism, both the Kurds and the Shi'ites should themselves be made up of smaller political entities. To have three or so major division in jurisdiction would lead to provincialism, and ultimately strife. Both groups should be more willing to be a part of the greater Iraq. You have the oil in the north and the ports in the south. The Sunnis have the relation to other Arab countries. Each group needs the others in this modern world.
BTW Kurdo- you discuss the Lausanne Treaty like Kurdistan was a country by its own right and was split amongst other countries... the truth is that the north iraq/south turkey, etc. was simply an area populated by Kurdish people and before them Assyrians- speaking a diff. language doesn't entitle you to a diff. country.
"I am pretty sure that if the Turkish government lifts its prosecution of the Kurds in Turkey, Kurds in that part would prefer to be part of the European Union."
huh? Do u even know where kurdish speaking area is? I'm tellin' ya, its not even close to Europe (read Anatolia (sp?))... But maybe, just maybe, you think that "kurdistan" once was a European country? I hope not!
Cheers!
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