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`Kurdish spring' looming over Near East
Independent Kurdistan won't consider Ankara, Baghdad or Damascus; it
has everything it needs ` the oil, the key advantage in the Near East.
The `Arab spring' is gradually transforming into the `Kurdish spring';
at least this is what the recent frequent clashes between the Turkish
regular army and the Kurdish population of Syria, and, to some extent,
Iran, resemble now. Apparently, the Kurds realized that the current
mess in the Near East may aid them in creating independent Kurdistan
and thus taking control over oil flows not only from Iraq but Syria as
well.
August 13, 2012
PanARMENIAN.Net - Turkey, faced with the Kurdish issue for several
decades now, plays a major part in preventing such scenario. The
Turkish regular army keeps trying to annihilate Kurdish militants from
the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), yet to no avail. Penetration onto
the territory of sovereign Iraq under the veil of Kurdish camp
destruction also ends up in failure. In addition, there are Syrian
Kurds united to form the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD), which
has close links with PKK. Furthermore, the Kurdish Pejak party banned
in Iran and other independent groups of Kurdish militants also cause
serious damage to Turkey.
The failed `zero problems with neighbours' policy by Ahmet Davutoglu
stirred talks on his resignation on top governmental level in Turkey,
since Turkey's foreign policy has turned into a `problem with almost
all its neighbours'. Also, it is worth noting that in collusion with
Assad, PYD controls key regions in north-eastern Syria. Unification of
Kurdish groups will most likely result in a total nightmare for
Turkey, with independent Kurdistan being established on the territory
of Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran. Also, there is the Kurdish National
Council (KNC) operating in Syria; it comprises 11 parties which have
no disagreements with either Assad or the Iraqi Kurds.
ErtuÄ?rul Ã-zkök, columnist for the Hürriyet paper asks a quite
reasonable question: `We could not manage a 400 kilometer Kurdish
border. How are we going to manage 1,200 kilometers?'
`Arabs are fighting each other; Kurds are winning. The Kurds are
taking one more step on their path to an independent state. Besides,
they are able to achieve this without firing one bullet. So where is
Turkey's Foreign Minister?' Ã-zkök says.
And, of course, the oil: two Kirkuk`Ceyhan strategic oil and gas
pipelines are the trump the Kurds can successfully play; actually,
they are quite likely to do so. Independent Kurdistan won't consider
Ankara, Baghdad or Damascus.It has everything it needs ` the oil, the
key advantage in the Near East.
If you have no oil, you have to adjust to others, while oil resources
make others adjust to you.
Meanwhile, the Turkish authorities threatened Syria with intervention
declaring they won't allow Kurdish separatists use the territory of
this country for their bases. At the same time, Turkey keeps deploying
troops at the 900-km Syrian border.
The Turkish government is concerned about the circumstance that Syrian
Kurds take control over increasingly large number of settlements near
the Turkish border, while the Syrian government continues battling
against the rebels in other regions of the country.
`We won't tolerate establishment of terrorist structure near our
border, be it al Qaeda or PKK' Ahmet Davutoglu told the Turkish TV.
`This is a matter of our national security, and we will take the
necessary action,' he said. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip ErdoÄ?an made a
similar statement last week. The Kurdish separatism emerges again, and
many Turkish generals believe the risk becomes increasingly larger for
Turkey.
Karine Ter-Sahakian
Independent Kurdistan won't consider Ankara, Baghdad or Damascus; it
has everything it needs ` the oil, the key advantage in the Near East.
The `Arab spring' is gradually transforming into the `Kurdish spring';
at least this is what the recent frequent clashes between the Turkish
regular army and the Kurdish population of Syria, and, to some extent,
Iran, resemble now. Apparently, the Kurds realized that the current
mess in the Near East may aid them in creating independent Kurdistan
and thus taking control over oil flows not only from Iraq but Syria as
well.
August 13, 2012
PanARMENIAN.Net - Turkey, faced with the Kurdish issue for several
decades now, plays a major part in preventing such scenario. The
Turkish regular army keeps trying to annihilate Kurdish militants from
the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), yet to no avail. Penetration onto
the territory of sovereign Iraq under the veil of Kurdish camp
destruction also ends up in failure. In addition, there are Syrian
Kurds united to form the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD), which
has close links with PKK. Furthermore, the Kurdish Pejak party banned
in Iran and other independent groups of Kurdish militants also cause
serious damage to Turkey.
The failed `zero problems with neighbours' policy by Ahmet Davutoglu
stirred talks on his resignation on top governmental level in Turkey,
since Turkey's foreign policy has turned into a `problem with almost
all its neighbours'. Also, it is worth noting that in collusion with
Assad, PYD controls key regions in north-eastern Syria. Unification of
Kurdish groups will most likely result in a total nightmare for
Turkey, with independent Kurdistan being established on the territory
of Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran. Also, there is the Kurdish National
Council (KNC) operating in Syria; it comprises 11 parties which have
no disagreements with either Assad or the Iraqi Kurds.
ErtuÄ?rul Ã-zkök, columnist for the Hürriyet paper asks a quite
reasonable question: `We could not manage a 400 kilometer Kurdish
border. How are we going to manage 1,200 kilometers?'
`Arabs are fighting each other; Kurds are winning. The Kurds are
taking one more step on their path to an independent state. Besides,
they are able to achieve this without firing one bullet. So where is
Turkey's Foreign Minister?' Ã-zkök says.
And, of course, the oil: two Kirkuk`Ceyhan strategic oil and gas
pipelines are the trump the Kurds can successfully play; actually,
they are quite likely to do so. Independent Kurdistan won't consider
Ankara, Baghdad or Damascus.It has everything it needs ` the oil, the
key advantage in the Near East.
If you have no oil, you have to adjust to others, while oil resources
make others adjust to you.
Meanwhile, the Turkish authorities threatened Syria with intervention
declaring they won't allow Kurdish separatists use the territory of
this country for their bases. At the same time, Turkey keeps deploying
troops at the 900-km Syrian border.
The Turkish government is concerned about the circumstance that Syrian
Kurds take control over increasingly large number of settlements near
the Turkish border, while the Syrian government continues battling
against the rebels in other regions of the country.
`We won't tolerate establishment of terrorist structure near our
border, be it al Qaeda or PKK' Ahmet Davutoglu told the Turkish TV.
`This is a matter of our national security, and we will take the
necessary action,' he said. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip ErdoÄ?an made a
similar statement last week. The Kurdish separatism emerges again, and
many Turkish generals believe the risk becomes increasingly larger for
Turkey.
Karine Ter-Sahakian