Turkish officials say that their government continues to oppose Kurdish independence, and wants a “unity government” in Iraq that would ensure Iraq’s territorial integrity.
Opposition to Kurdish independence anywhere in the world has been a long-standing policy of the Turkish government, but with close ties to Iraq’s Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and some serious business interests behind secession, there was growing speculation that Turkey was warming to the idea.
It was also believed that endorsing secession from Maliki’s Iraq, with which Turkey doesn’t have very warm ties, would improve the Erdogan government’s standing with their own Kurdish minority leading up to elections.
So far Israel is the only country to formally endorse Kurdish secession, and with the US loudly opposed to the idea there was likely pressure on Turkey to tow the line as a NATO member.
Big government and always striving toward a one-world government, this is for those with a dictator mentality as they need a monopoly on the use of force and violence to accomplish things that the majority does oppose, wars of aggression, that sort of thing.
Take care, for when the choice is a one-world government or World War Three, then must come the ultimatr conclusion of all hymanity.
Turkey does not want to give the Turkish Kurds any reason at all to think about being autonomous.
Bull shit and again bull shit, Turkish government is opposing a Kurdish state because Israel encouraging it, otherwise what I want to know is, where the hell ISIS get their hands on hundreds upon hundreds of brand new Toyota trucks if it was not from Turkish territory's given to ISIS to advance. The Turkish, Erdogan government is one of main player starting, helping and supporting the logistical needs of these barbarians and Saudis savages, rest is a deceptive politics played by Erdogan. Like USG, no one should trust NATO nor Erdogan double moral politics.
They just don't want their oppressed Kurd's getting ideas.
Kurds have a right to self determination and secession. I don't see a problem with it unless it drags Turkey further into the quagmire. It would be Erdogan's just deserts for Turkey's involvement in the war in Syria. The Israel lobby is coming out for the Kurds.
Jeffrey Goldberg says: "And [Obama] would have to resist the knee-jerk Westphalian urge to preserve the borders of nation-states for the sake of (often chimerical and sometimes amoral) stability." http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-07-01/…
Jeffrey Goldberg says, "A nationalist Russia has not been completely contained by the U.S. and its Western allies, but no would-be president — not John McCain or Mitt Romney or Hillary Clinton — would have developed a military option that could have prevented the conquest of Crimea." http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-05-28/…
Translation: secession and self determination is okay only when Israel wants it. At least the US government is being consistent so far from my knowledge.