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...most populous captive population: the 20 million Kurds who straddle territories in Iraq, Turkey, Iran and Syria. While an opportunistic Turkish government has done everything it can to deny the Iraqi Kurds a new state, the American government should make sure that an independent, democratic Kurdistan is created in northern Iraq, finally giving the Kurds something they have fought for and dreamed of for centuries: a homeland...
Instead, the Bush administration recently assured Turkish leaders that in exchange for Turkey’s support against Saddam, the United States will not support the creation of an independent Kurdish state in northern Iraq. This deal comes in spite of the recent flowering of Kurdish civil society in the northern No-Fly-Zone under the protection of American and British air forces. Northern Iraq is home to several Kurdish political parties, Kurdish-language newspapers and television stations, and in May 2002, the Kurdish community held local council elections, an event that is unthinkable in the rest of Iraq. Kurdish...
Turkey, however, views a Kurdish state on their border as unacceptable. It fears that a Kurdish state in northern Iraq would inflame separatist tensions among the dominant Kurdish community in southeastern Turkey. It may seem as if Turkey is acting in the interests of regional security and stability by trying to prevent fragmentation, but its fears are overblown. Organized militant Kurdish separatism in Turkey ended two years ago in 2000, when the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), a group which had waged a 15-year guerilla campaign against the Turkish military, finally embraced a non-violent, non-separatist democratic agenda. Since...
...cellar. The banker was seized in June in Tbilisi by a gang disguised as policemen. His unaided escape will do little to enhance President Eduard Shevardnadze's claim that he's asserting authority over the gorge. FRANCE That's All Folks A Red Cross refugee camp at Sangatte, in northern France, shut its doors to new entrants and began preparing for its eventual closure in April. The decision comes as part of a joint U.K.-French initiative to cut down on illegal immigration. The camp had been at the center of a dispute between Britain and France; its proximity...
...French independent terror expert Roland Jacquard says he has seen recent intelligence reports suggesting that "networks previously thought to be struggling are at the very peripheries of much larger, better organized and fully operative structures." There have been key arrests - six Tunisians suspected of plotting a bomb attack in northern Europe were picked up in Italy, France and Malta last month; in Eindhoven last week a Dutch citizen of Moroccan origin was apprehended for allegedly plotting a suicide strike - but nothing crippling to the terrorist enterprise as a whole. The evidence was compel- ling enough for the former director...