New powder keg of the Middle East? (1 of 3)

http://therealnews.com/c.php?c=071025YT
Eric Margolis on the Turkish Kurdish conflict and its danger for the region

2007-10-25

Note: Part Two of this interview will be available on Friday.

As contributing editor for The American Conservative and Sun Media, and Founding Committee member of The Real News Eric Margolis says: "The reason I was drawn to [The Real News] was the fact it seemed to me to be the voice that I and many others had been looking for."

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[SLAVEforLISA]

This is AGAIN all about oil. It is past time for a political settlement. If Bush would stop pushing for privatization and would offer legitimate diplomacy, this could possibly get done.

[mrmike123456a]

5 stars, as always, for your reports! And, as RahSabs suggests, I would love to hear Gwynne Dyer's assessment of the situation!

[KurdSouth]

its suicide fore turkey to invide south kurdistan

[Eye0fTheStorm]

Why are you calling me "Eye of zion". I was critisizing you because I thought you were turkish

It pisses me off when I see turks insulting kurds when Turkey has been the biggest traitors to the Ummah in the last century. With other Muslim countries, only the leaders and rich elite are anti-Islam. In Turkey vast swathes of the population threw Islam behind their back to kiss European ass and beg to be part of Europe

[judoka1]

Eye0fZion, I'm not a Turk. The filthy gang along with the Serbs are the secular Kurds or today!

[Eye0fTheStorm]

You turks are one of the biggest embarassments to Islam, even in this world we live in where every muslim country is ruled by western backed dictators. In the case of turkey, you don't have dictators, and yet your government turned its back on Muslims so many times.

When Bosnian muslims were being slaughtered in the genocide, what did turkey do? With its half a million strong army it just stood buy and let filthy serbs gang-rape muslim women

[judoka1]

kurd=Israeli That's old news in that region all knew that the kurd's were conspiring with the zionist state against their host countries. The kurds think they can push back the Turkish Army!! that's a joke the only ones that will get pushed back are the Kurds all the way back to Mongolia where they came from.

[shivankurds]

but why the word kurds attaking turky or iran .. turky is attaking kurds and iran is doing the same and kurdis only deffnding them self ,, if is really new u should go back and see why is this conflict

[shivankurds]

ya u right . that is what usa when u attack iran ur a good kurd but when u attak turky u r a bad kurd ,.that is funny cuz in both side kurds r fighting for freedom ..

[InfoJunkieHolland]

*SARCASM*

i hope

[RahSabs]

Musharraf's control of his own territory, or willingness to do so, is highly debatable. You can find an independence movement in Pakistani Baluchestan. But that is a bit of a cottage industry in Asia! (A continguous land mass with millenia of history gets you that.) You can always find some weekend warriors, fund them, and publicise them as the solution to public discontent.

Look up news of bombings in eastern Iran over the last 2 years.