‘US looking to carve Kurdish state from Turkey, Iran and Syria’

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ISTANBUL: The Iranian ambassador to Ankara urged Turkey, Iran and Syria to form a joint policy on the Kurdish issue, saying in an interview published on Tuesday that if they did not, “the US will carve pieces from us for a Kurdish state.”

Turkey, Syria and Iran share borders and have large Kurdish populations that separatist militants would like to see as part of an independent Kurdish state. Turkey in particular fears such a scenario, and has been roiled in the past week by anti-state Kurdish riots that have left 15 dead and hundreds injured.

The remarks by Ambassador Firouz Dowlatabadi were published in an interview with Turkey’s Milliyet daily and confirmed by the Iranian Embassy in Ankara. “Turkey, Iran and Syria need to form a joint policy on the Kurd and Iraq issues. If there is a void between Turkey, Iran and Syria on this subject, the US will enter the void and fill the space,” he said. “The US will carve pieces out of us for a Kurdish state.”

Dowlatabadi said the United States was trying to create friction between Iran and Turkey, despite what he called their more than 1,100-year-old friendship, because the US preferred the region to be full of small ethnic states that it could control. “The US is trying to prevent the development and strengthening of relations between Turkey and Iran. It’s trying to bring the two countries into conflict,” he said.

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2006\04\05\story_5-4-2006_pg4_14

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1. God We Really Suck

all we do is cause trouble All Over the World. I Hate Bush More today then I did yesterday.

[enigma000]

2. So you believe Ambassador Firouz Dowlatabadi ? n/t

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3. I'd believe just about anyone over the chimp

I'm sorry but with Bush most times you pick the worst case scenario, the hardest part of the story to believe and that tends to be the truth. ya know like up is down, black is white, bad is good. It's the new world order according to the Bushcos !!

[peacetalksforall]

4. Face it. The person quoted is just as believable as our own. We just

can't trust our own, can we? The U.S. plays these countries two ways simultaneously and in reverse. While we wage war on Iran, Cheney trades with them, etc. While we attacked Milosevic, Kissinger and Eagleberger did business with him.

The country interests are always the corporate and foundation interests and we are not on the inside. If we move in to fill a void, the overal reason is not peace.

We're learning that the person we think we're votng for as a leader is all about facilitating the interests of the corporations and foundations. From Robertson to ITT to Bechtel to Halliburton to Exxon. etc.

[Neil Lisst]

5. I've always thought the Kurds deserved their own country.

How obnoxious is it to be spread over 4 countries, minorities in all of them?

[genie_weenie]

6. Why is it a bad thing for the Kurdish people to get a State?

I have to put aside my contempt for the Nation-State and my belief in an anarchist solution. But I have to ask why is it bad for the Kurdish people to get control over their lives? Again, my own personal beliefs tend towards no government, but the Kurds are a subject people. And this would be a step up for them away from the slavery and abuse imposed by foreign rulers.

Doesn't the UN guarantee such rights as self-determination for peoples? UN Resolution 1514 (XV).
http://daccessdds.un.org/doc/RESOLUTION/GEN/NR0/152/88/IMG/NR015288.pdf?OpenElement

And isn't this article just the State apparatuses of Iran and Turkey attempting to portray the US as the evil bogeyman (not that we aren't) in order to justify their continued coercive control over the Kurds?

Of course, Turkey will never allow the Kurds to gain a state such as Kurdistan. Kurdistan would be "Stealing" the rightful lands that the Ottomans and Ataturk rightfully inherited through violence...

That would pose to much of a danger to the State of Turkey, forcing the governmental apparatus of Turkey to have to respond with another genocide...

I just don't understand why people would be upset that the Kurds would get some measure of freedom? Because the US is doing it? :shrug: