March 21st, 2003, 09:19 PM
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Re: [OT] Another heated discussion about the Iraq siutation, war and politics.
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Originally posted by Atrocities:
Turkey wants the northern Iraq oil fields. Why else act so stupidly.
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It's not the oil. Turkey wants to prevent the Kurds from founding a Kurdish state in northern Iraq after it has been liberated. Turkey has been fiercely opressing kurds within it's own borders for decades and fears things will get out of hand when the Kurds declare independence.
[ March 21, 2003, 19:21: Message edited by: henk brouwer ] |