Posts Tagged: Kurdish state
At Tehran Meeting, Leaders of Iran and Turkey Express Opposition to Creation of Independent Kurdish State
With Turkey's president by his side, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani pledged Wednesday that they would ensure borders in the region remain unchanged after the recent Kurdish independence...
Responding to Erdogan, Netanyahu Denies Israeli Role in Kurdish Referendum
JNS.org - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denied on Sunday that Israel had a role in last week’s Kurdish independence referendum, after Turkish President Recep Tayyip...
Why Kurdistan Will Benefit Iraq and the Middle East
Before welcoming the emerging state of Kurdistan in northern Iraq, I confess to having opposed its independence in the past. In 1991, after the Kuwait War had...
Rearranging the Middle East
British perfidy and French collusion have created a Middle East that has been unstable since the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire in the...
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s Syrian Misadventure
Why does the Turkish government act so aggressively against the Assad regime of Syria? Perhaps Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan hopes that lobbing artillery shells into...
