kirkuki
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Turkish-Bred Prosperity Makes War Less Likely in Iraqi Kurdistan
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/07/world/middleeast/07kurds.html?pagewanted=all
United States Institute of Peace
http://www.usip.org/files/resources/Turkish_Iranian_Competition.pdf
Senior Sunni and Shia politicians have privately raised the question of whether Ankara is seeking to control northern Iraq’s economy and politics, in effect drawing the former Mosul vilayet into an explicitly Turkish orbit. For example, when asked about the 50/50 split of the March 2010 election results in the disputed province of Kirkuk between Iraqiyya and the Kurdistan Alliance, a senior adviser to Prime Minister Maliki caustically remarked that “some external party” had arranged this neat division.38 Likewise, one of Iraq’s most senior Sunni politicians said that Turkey’s ever-increasing activity in northern Iraq is a source of concern to Iraqi nationalists in light of the ideological underpinnings of neo-Ottomanism.
To complete the circle, though enjoying the benefits of transformed relations with Ankara, some Kurdish politicians worry that Ankara seeks to use economic dependence to turn the Kurdistan region into a Turkish vassal.
The "Turkish newspaper article" on what this thread is based on, is off course total bullshit. I don't think, that Turkey is in a position, that it is being presented "conditions" Turkey has to agree on.
i see that kemalist turks still living in the dreams , if anything you are occupying a big chunk of kurdistan in south east turkey , pay a visit there before you talk about kurdish land outside of your artificial border.