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...nationalists as the future capital of a Kurdish state. Turkey is unhappy that former Kurdish residents of the city forcibly relocated by Saddam Hussein and replaced by Arab Iraqis two decades ago will be allowed to vote in Kirkuk. Turkey - as well as leaders of the city's ethnic Turcoman and Arab populations - fear this will decisively tip the electoral balance to give the Kurds control over the contested city. The Turkish military is warning, bluntly, that it would deem Kurdish control of Kirkuk unacceptable, and that it might view such an outcome as grounds to intervene. These...
...there's also a flip-side, in the form of the ethnic Turcoman minority in northern Iraq, who have their own political parties in Iraqi Kurdistan but have a troubled relationship with the Kurds. Many Kurds see the Turcomans as a proxy for Turkey. The Turcomans themselves feel like a minority without a place in this big Kurdish fraternity, and they look to the Turks for support. I met with the leader of the Turcoman party, who said frankly that if the Turcomans are in jeopardy, they expect Turkey to come in and help them - which sounds like creating...
...there's also a flip-side, in the form of the ethnic Turcoman minority in northern Iraq, who have their own political parties in Iraqi Kurdistan but have a troubled relationship with the Kurds. Many Kurds see the Turcomans as a proxy for Turkey. The Turcomans themselves feel like a minority without a place in this big Kurdish fraternity, and they look to the Turks for support. I met with the leader of the Turcoman party, who said frankly that if the Turcomans are in jeopardy, they expect Turkey to come in and help them - which sounds like creating...
...held up a gory picture of a Turcoman woman, demanded: "What right did they have to kill this woman? Is that what the granting of rights to women means?" Almost absently, Kassem continued: "Look at these savage acts. Do they not discredit freedom and democracy? What have you done? These pictures cause pain. Look at the poor people being dragged in the streets." Composing himself, Kassem said: "Rest assured that this will not happen again. There is force ready to destroy anyone attempting...
Ethnically Syria is a melting pot of Arab, Kurd, Turcoman, Circassian, Armenian and a score of forgotten peoples, but of its 3,900,000 inhabitants 86% are Moslem. Besides orthodox Moslems, there are Jews, five major varieties of Christian, a sprinkling of devil worshipers and 117,000 Druses, hard-bitten mountaineers who hate Christians, are free to ignore Moslem fasts and believe that an 11th century Egyptian caliph was the last incarnation...