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Turkey preparing to invade Kurdistan?

Turkey has been mak­ing noises that the Iraqi Kurds should not get too hope­ful about estab­lish­ing a quasi-independent entity in the three gov­er­nates they con­trol in north­ern Iraq. Now, it looks like Turkey is ready to back up their words with force. How­ever, there is an elec­tion com­ing up in Turkey, so the pos­si­bil­ity that this is all fod­der for domes­tic con­stituen­cies can­not be ruled out.

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HADEP Deputy Chairman: “This is democracy in Turkey”

In which the Deputy Chair­man of HADEP, the Kur­dish party in Turkey, talks about the state of affairs in the south­east part of the country.

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Eastward bound…

Being the sec­ond of my dis­patches from Turkey, this time from Ankara… The call for prayer is echo­ing out­side my win­dow, I’m stay­ing with Aykut and his wife and ¯Â¿Â½ve just seen on the news that the UN has failed to reach an agree­ment with Iraq on the return of arms inspec­tors and that the New York Times has pub­lished a front-page story out­lin­ing plans for a three-pronged attack on Iraq. … I’ll be there in a week.

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Ecevit: Kurds dragging Turkey into war

So I posted the con­sti­tu­tions last night along with my thoughts that the Kurds are ask­ing for trou­ble, and wouldn’t you know it? Today, the Guardian runs this. It’s more of that growl­ing that I men­tioned in my pre­vi­ous post, but what’s most alarm­ing about this is Turkey’s charges that the United States is direct­ing the Kurds: “It is beyond encour­age­ment, (Wash­ing­ton) is direct­ing them,” said Prime Min­is­ter Bulent Ecevit.

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Proposed Iraqi constitution(s) asking for trouble

Here’s some­thing you won’t find any­where else. (I googled.) These are the scanned copies of the pro­posed con­sti­tu­tions for Iraq, post-Saddam. Sami Abdul Rah­man, the deputy prime min­is­ter (KDP) of the Kur­dis­tan Regional Gov­ern­ment, gave them to me after I inter­viewed him in his offices in the Par­lia­ment build­ing in Arbil. He wrote them, and the KDP and PUK, in a rare show of pub­lic unity, have signed on. Even State, back in July, said the ideas were “interesting.”

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