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Politics : Foreign Policy Discussion Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Sun Tzu who wrote (5290)	3/21/2003 11:44:14 AM
From: zonder	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 15987

I figured you should have access to better news on this than I. You may very well be right. The news I have access to is some websites, an internet TV channel, and the "groundbreaking news" that my broker in Istanbul graces me with every once in a while... Turkey does not want to permanently stop the exodus; they just don't want it happening while the faith of Kurdistan is unclear One possibility (and I am really going out on a limb here) could be that Turkey is counting on an ethnic headcount in Mosoul & Kirkuk after the war, to determine where they will go. Apparently there are some Turkomans in these towns (no idea about the percentage populations). Turkey might be trying to prevent an influx of Kurds into these oil-rich towns, so they will not be considered "Kurdish towns" when time comes to decide where they will go.