Wednesday, December 28, 2011

A New Empire?

On Monday we wrote about Turkey's nervousness vis-a-vis Kurdish moves toward independence. That is certainly the historic - but apparently not the only - view.

Here is an article from Today's Zaman that takes a different perspective. It sees Turkey absorbing the Kurdish areas of Syria and Iraq into a federation of Turks and Kurds. I sense a wish to reassemble the Ottoman Empire.