IRAQ - Why Turkey Fears The Kurds; The Viability Of Iraq, Iran & Syria.

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Turkey's Kemalists, including the powerful military, have never forgiven the US for calling Erdogan's neo-Islamist government as a model for good democracy in the Muslim world. And, in an article published on Oct. 16 by Asia Times Online, Spengler wrote: "Whether Turkey will fling away its new-found prosperity in a fit of national pique is hard to forecast, but that has been the way... Europe plunged into World War I in 1914 at the peak of its prosperity for similar reasons.

"News accounts link Turkey's threat to invade northern Iraq with outrage over a resolution before the US Congress recognizing that Turkey committed genocide against its Armenian population in 1915... Why the Turks should take out their rancor at the US on the Kurds might seem anomalous until we consider that the issue of Armenian genocide has become a proxy for Turkey's future disposition toward the Kurds.

"...Turkey's tragedy is that the 11th Seljuk conquerors of the Anatolian peninsula became masters of a majority Christian population, a...

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