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Turkey and Iraq, the perils (and prospects) of proximity, by Henri J. Barkey

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Turkey and Iraq, the perils (and prospects) of proximity, by Henri J. Barkey

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

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federal national government publication

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illustrationsmaps

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Turkey and Iraq

Nature of contents

bibliographydictionaries

Oclc number

61134660

Responsibility statement

by Henri J. Barkey

Series statement

Special report, no. 141

Sub title

the perils (and prospects) of proximity

Summary

Throughout the 1990s, Turkey was the anchor in the containment of Saddam Hussein's Iraq by the United States. The unpredictable set of events unleashed by Operation Iraqi Freedom has unnerved both Turkish decision makers and the public alike. The U.S.-led coalition's operation in Iraq has also upended Turkey's fundamental interests in Iraq, which are fourfold: (1) Prevent the division of Iraq along sectarian or ethnic lines that would give rise to an independent or confederal Kurdish state (with the oil-rich city of Kirkuk as its capital), thus supporting aspiratins for a similar entity in Turkey's own extensive Kurdish population. (2) Protect Turkish-speaking Turkmen minority, which resides primarily in northern Iraq. (3) Eliminate the Kurdistan Workers' Party, the Turkish Kurdish insurgent movement, which has sought refuge in the northeast of Iraq following its defeat in 1999. (4) Prevent the emergence of a potentially hostile nondemocratic fundamentalist Iraqi state

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Iraq and its neighborsPerils and prospects of proximity

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