Today's Zaman.com : "Turkey won’t accept the Mosul carrot" par Gürkan Zengin

Turkey won’t accept the Mosul carrot

In a recent report released by the International Crisis Group (ICG) on July 8, Fouad Hussein, Massoud Barzani's chief of staff, was quoted as saying, "If the Shiites choose Iran, and the Sunnis choose the Arab world, then the Kurds will have to ally themselves with Turkey."

Moreover, a Kurdish minister said: "I'd rather be with Turkey than Iraq, because Iraq is undemocratic. [The best way forward is for] the Kurdistan region to join Turkey as part of a new Mosul vilayet and for Turkey to join the EU, with a solution for the situation of the Kurds in Turkey."

The ICG report asserts that these developments have revived the notion of “Mosul vilayet,” Iraq's old Mosul province to which post-Ottoman Turkey laid claim, but this time the impetus is coming not.....


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