Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Kurdistan?

Yesterday I wrote that Syria breaking up into sectarian mini-states would "cause less regional angst than the feared split-up of Iraq which threatened to put the Turks at war with a Kurdish state." Perhaps I spoke too soon.

See this article from The Telegraph (U.K.) which indicates one of the strongest of the post-Syrian mini-states might be Kurdish. The Turks won't like that one bit.

They will object to it in the same way they object to any independent Kurdistan wherever it exists. And yet ... a Kurdistan could happen in spite of the Turks.