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To: Norman H. Hostetler who wrote (10199)	11/20/1998 8:58:00 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Respond to of 13091

Well, It's kind of a moot point now, since it looks like the Turkish legislature is preparing for a vote of no confidence next week. It is quite likely that the gov't will fall. Oh well, we still have China... for now. Regards, Ron

To: Norman H. Hostetler who wrote (10199)	11/21/1998 5:59:00 PM
From: Charles A. King	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 13091

Just as Europe did not apply the lessons of the 20th Century to the behavior of Serbia during the 1990's, Turkey has not learned the lessons of the 19th Century. Numbering over 22 million, the Kurds are one of the largest non-state nations in the world. Their homeland, Kurdistan, has been forcibly divided and lies mostly within the present day borders of Turkey, Iraq and Iran, with smaller parts in Syria, Armenia and Azerbaijan. The greatest number of Kurds today still live in Kurdistan, though a large Kurdish diaspora has developed in this century, especially in center cities of Turkey and Iran and more recently in Europe as well. Between 10 and 12 million Kurds live in Turkey, where they comprise about 20 percent of population. Between 5 and 6 million lives in Iran, accounting for close to 10 percent of the population. Kurds in Iraq number more than 4 million and comprise about 23 percent of the population. The basic internal political problem the Kurdish people have is that are unable to govern themselves as a nation. The violent factions within Kurdistan make it relatively easy for the "host" countries to control them. These political factions within Kurdistan tend to have a tribal nature about them. There is an obvious solution to the problem Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and the others have in dealing with the Kurds on a permanent basis, and the model is found in 19th Century history, when independent nations were permanently neutralized and emasculated. Some names of these nations are Crow, Cherokee, and Sioux. One must become completely cynical if one wants to prevent breakup of countries while at the same time pacify the Kurds. Each host country needs to set aside a region or regions within each country's borders as designated "Kurdish Autonomous Zones". These regions will be the most inhospitable, sterile regions, unfit for human habitation, as far as possible from rivers and metropolitan centers of industry and commerce. The people within the borders will not be able to subsist on their own and will be guaranteed minimal food, clothing, and shelter by the "host" country. The Kurdish zones will not be contiguous, that is, they will not form a continuous region across the borders of the host countries. If a Kurd wanted to travel from one region to another, he would have to cross the border into the host country first. That would be allowed, but discouraged. For one thing, welfare aid would stop until he returned to his own homeland. The Moslems hate recreational drugs while the Native Americans accept them as part of their culture and even their religion. Drugs are a major problem of Native Americans and keep them weak. Liberal supply of alcohol and other drugs can be slipped across the borders of the Kurdish zones because Kurds are people too. When people are practically forced to live as I have cynically described, their pain tends to make them more vulnerable to the use of drugs, and the support of their religion wanes. The above is my cynical "solution" to the Kurdish problem. The alternative is to continue the pattern of treachery and violence, and the regions involved will remain forever depressed. Incidently, our own country has participated in inciting violence against our enemies, followed by reneging on promises. Examples are the invasion of Hungary by the Soviet Union in 1956, and the Bay of Pigs disaster. The Kurds expected us to help ward off Saddam Hussein's army in Northern Iraq after the Gulf War but were bloodily disappointed. Charles