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Columnist at one of Turkeys three most important newspapers ... Turkey must ... help the Kurds in their fight against ISIS. We are much better off protected by a Kurdish buffer zone than facing ISIS alone along our 600-mile border with Syria. Doing so will require a huge paradigm shift for Turkey: It must abandon its nationalist legacy and reimagine itself as a joint Turkish-Kurdish entity. ... As Ive been saying ... the ONLY people for whom ISIS is the MAIN threat are the Kurds ... defeat of ISIS will inevitably mean Kurdish autonomy -- and the key question re that is whether the Turkish government will accept or fight that emergent reality ... if Turkey accepts Kurdistan, there is a CHANCE for a better Middle East -- if not, as this notes, disaster for all is assured ...
Posted on: Fri, 03 Oct 2014 18:19:51 +0000

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