The Kurdish Question

April 2008
Kurdish ambitions for independence and their own oil revenue is raising alarm bells in Washington and Baghdad. Tensions are escalating, with both sides threatening violence.
According to US official Jon Cebra, the Kurds welcomed the overthrow of Saddam Hussein as "an opportunity to reintegrate into the rest of Iraq." But on the streets of the Kurdish capital, Irbil, no-one's interested in reintegretion. "Independence is on its way because Iraq's future is to be divided". The Kurds now have their own government and army and collect their own taxes. But more significantly, they're signing their own oil deals, and it's a very sensitive issue. The Kurdish government is also going to extreme lengths to boost the Kurdish population of Kirkuk, which it hopes will become the new capital. "They gave ,000 to people to come back", states Azadeen. The Kurds were once said to be America's best friends in the Middle East. Now, they wonder whether their independence was ever part of America's plans. There was meant to be a referendum last December on the issue. That vote has now been postponed indefinitely but the issue is not going away. "If the referendum is not implemented, we are afraid that something will happen." states President Massoud Barzani. "What may happen, I can't tell you now. But for sure it will not remain like now".

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[webdesign0Kahraman]

kurdistan is not IRAQ its KURDISTAN U STUPID REPORTER usa has no rights calling kurdistan IRAQ

[kurdistanpeschmerger]

fuck usa and israel

[zzeynepp18]

@QWRAMINGA

Hahah, it was only TURKISH men who came from middle asia not TURK women, so it is very clear who reped whom:D

[QWRAMINGA]

heheh TURKS are MUSLIMS ? wow first time to hear cuz all the prostitution and whoredom started among turks and came to other arab countries, and just to make it clear, turks are terrorists not the KURDS, you came invade the KURDISH LAND and persecute the kurdish people and take all the resources from the kurdish land and don't spend a dime on the people, that's why the KURDS are moving to the other cities, but I want the turks to know that we gonna fuck them and kill them bitches

[QWRAMINGA]

there is nothing you call it turks, they are originally Mongols came down and they screwed islamic power to invade everybody's during ottomans bitches, and actually if you check the blood of anatolians, it's a mixture of bloods from all the nations arounds, that means the turkish women had been fucked by men from all different nations around and mostly by KURDS, so those son of bitches bitches say bad things about Kurds might be from KURDISH DICK but they don't know about heheh FUCK TURKS

[Hasher101]

@zzeynepp18 ıts true

[Rastaqina]

kurd 140 140

kurdistan kirkuk

[zzeynepp18]

And greeks should support anatolian Turks instead of persian semitic mixed kurds, Anatolian Turks are closer to Greak genetically and culturally.Turks can solve the problems with Greek in the future.Kurds are immigrating to anatolian cities and they destroy everything we have been protected,they have no respect to people,animals and nature.They have turkish passaport also because of that people confuse turks and kurds in europe.

[zzeynepp18]

It is very funny,Today's Turks have %90-95 native anatolian dna,like troyans,ionians,hittites.But everyone thinks that they are invaders,No. anatolian turks are living in their lands and their dna shows that they have been in anatolia before kurds.They have right to protect thier lands,turks are not living in kurdish cities but kurds are living in turkish cities,they dont want to go so called kurdistan.If there will be a kurdistan millions of kurds will have to leave turkish cities and go back.

[Unknown12369874b]

@00thelastottoman00 Cihad is legal, but killing is illegal?

You're the dumbest mother fucker ever.

That doesn't surprise me, cause your mother is a whore!