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    `Kurdish spring' looming over Near East
    Independent Kurdistan won't consider Ankara, Baghdad or Damascus; it
    has everything it needs ` the oil, the key advantage in the Near East.

    The `Arab spring' is gradually transforming into the `Kurdish spring';
    at least this is what the recent frequent clashes between the Turkish
    regular army and the Kurdish population of Syria, and, to some extent,
    Iran, resemble now. Apparently, the Kurds realized that the current
    mess in the Near East may aid them in creating independent Kurdistan
    and thus taking control over oil flows not only from Iraq but Syria as
    well.
    August 13, 2012
    PanARMENIAN.Net - Turkey, faced with the Kurdish issue for several
    decades now, plays a major part in preventing such scenario. The
    Turkish regular army keeps trying to annihilate Kurdish militants from
    the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), yet to no avail. Penetration onto
    the territory of sovereign Iraq under the veil of Kurdish camp
    destruction also ends up in failure. In addition, there are Syrian
    Kurds united to form the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD), which
    has close links with PKK. Furthermore, the Kurdish Pejak party banned
    in Iran and other independent groups of Kurdish militants also cause
    serious damage to Turkey.

    The failed `zero problems with neighbours' policy by Ahmet Davutoglu
    stirred talks on his resignation on top governmental level in Turkey,
    since Turkey's foreign policy has turned into a `problem with almost
    all its neighbours'. Also, it is worth noting that in collusion with
    Assad, PYD controls key regions in north-eastern Syria. Unification of
    Kurdish groups will most likely result in a total nightmare for
    Turkey, with independent Kurdistan being established on the territory
    of Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran. Also, there is the Kurdish National
    Council (KNC) operating in Syria; it comprises 11 parties which have
    no disagreements with either Assad or the Iraqi Kurds.

    ErtuÄ?rul Ã-zkök, columnist for the Hürriyet paper asks a quite
    reasonable question: `We could not manage a 400 kilometer Kurdish
    border. How are we going to manage 1,200 kilometers?'

    `Arabs are fighting each other; Kurds are winning. The Kurds are
    taking one more step on their path to an independent state. Besides,
    they are able to achieve this without firing one bullet. So where is
    Turkey's Foreign Minister?' Ã-zkök says.

    And, of course, the oil: two Kirkuk`Ceyhan strategic oil and gas
    pipelines are the trump the Kurds can successfully play; actually,
    they are quite likely to do so. Independent Kurdistan won't consider
    Ankara, Baghdad or Damascus.It has everything it needs ` the oil, the
    key advantage in the Near East.

    If you have no oil, you have to adjust to others, while oil resources
    make others adjust to you.

    Meanwhile, the Turkish authorities threatened Syria with intervention
    declaring they won't allow Kurdish separatists use the territory of
    this country for their bases. At the same time, Turkey keeps deploying
    troops at the 900-km Syrian border.

    The Turkish government is concerned about the circumstance that Syrian
    Kurds take control over increasingly large number of settlements near
    the Turkish border, while the Syrian government continues battling
    against the rebels in other regions of the country.

    `We won't tolerate establishment of terrorist structure near our
    border, be it al Qaeda or PKK' Ahmet Davutoglu told the Turkish TV.
    `This is a matter of our national security, and we will take the
    necessary action,' he said. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip ErdoÄ?an made a
    similar statement last week. The Kurdish separatism emerges again, and
    many Turkish generals believe the risk becomes increasingly larger for
    Turkey.

    Karine Ter-Sahakian

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