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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Turkey doesn't want Kurds in Iraq free to support Kurdish separatists in Turkey, and sees this as something like an existensial problem for the Turkish state. But I don't think Turkey is that much better off with a failed Iraq state and a functionally independent Kurdish north. (Somewhat better, because it's not nominally a Kurdish nation.) In our present role, we act as a check on the Kurds, and that may be as good as it's going to get for Turkey.
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It's hard being both a Turkish state and a multinational state.
Turkey hasn't been a great place for the non-Turkish nationalities, and they've brought this upon themselves. We've somehow managed to be both Greek and Turkish allies, and now just need to pull of the same thing with the Kurds and Turks. But think of what the Middle East looks like with Shi'a control of all of Iraq, including Kurdistan.
