RADIKAL- The state which we didn’t want to talk about is being born. The US was determined to establish a Kurdish state. This is no surprise. It couldn’t be established earlier because conditions didn’t favor such a development, but now it has borne its fruits. Clearly there’s nothing Ankara can do at this point. Military intervention and other words are big lies. We can laugh at people who talk about Turkey closing its EU bid and going into a fight against the US.
One pessimistic scenario says that the US would tell Kurdish region leader Massoud Barzani to postpone the Kirkuk referendum in order to prevent a Turkish reaction. When should it be postponed until, then? Until after Turkey’s elections. That is, at the end of this year. Then? Then Kirkuk is Kurdish soil. It’s useless to contradict this. This is the outcome.
One can also have hopes that the US is taking us seriously after US officials told the US Congress that this could lead to a conflict with Turkey. The answer to the question of whether Kirkuk is gone now is that it’s already in the hands of the Kurds. The Turkmen of Kirkuk have suffered as much as the city’s Kurds. For example, since the ’80s, Saddam Hussein hanged retired military official Abdurrahman, scholar Necdet Kocak, Halit Akkoyunlu and businessmen Adil Serig only to see what the Turkish reaction would be. But he continued after seeing that there was no reaction. On March 28, 1991, he killed 87 Turks. He continued and attacked the Turkmen who were protesting this issue in front of the Iraqi Consulate in Istanbul, and two young people died. We didn’t react. Think about this and look into the history of Kirkuk and see for yourself.