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To: Brumar89 who wrote (58005)	11/21/2002 5:06:49 AM
From: zonder	Respond to of 281500

Kurds who live throughout Turkey and especially in the western cities are quite content with their recent liberties of education and publication in their own language. They would not go & live in a "Kurdistan" if ever one is formed between Iraq and Turkey. They would probably cheer it from a distance, though. Kurds who live together in southeast Turkey are another story. They are tired of years of struggle between the separatist PKK and the less than humanitarian Turkish army, and would like to have their own country. They are very poor, extremely undereducated, and oppressed not only by the Turkish state but the feudal lords of the region. They would support the formation of a Kurdish country. I cannot tell if they would rise in arms to join their Iraqi brethren if the planned US invasion of Iraq turns ugly, thereby breaking off a part of Turkey to form Kurdistan, but it is a possibility that Turkey fears.