RE: US to change position on Syria again: Open end occupation to prevent Assad´s victory
※→ Marion Morrison,
The Kurdish People, in a way, were promised their own sovereign territory as a carve-out decided by the Three-Nation Commission made-up by the Allied Powers
(British, French and Italian Governments). This can be found in Section III, Articles 62 thru 64, of
the Treaty of Sevres (1920). But, as we all know, the Treaty was never ratified and Kemal Atatürk would no accept further territorial losses at the time the Treaty of Lausanne (1924); and the provision for a Kurdistan was omitted.
Well, I hope it all works out OK.
I have a question: Don't the Kurds deserve their own place?
(COMMENT)
Today, there is an semi-autonomous region of Iraq THAT officially comes under
the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG); based in Erbil.
This is not to be confused with the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK for
Partiya Karkerên Kurdistanê). The PKK has been fighting for independence from the Turks since the late 1970's. The PKK is considered a "terrorist group"
(one of the few things that the US and Russians have agreed upon).
It is becoming clear that the PKK methods and goals of PKK to achieve any measure of autonomy have failed (miserably). Whereas the KRG has achieved many of the objectives originally envisioned at the end of the Great War.
The Kurds have, for all intent and purposes, their homeland. It is not the 1920 earmarked territory, but what it lacks in sized, it gains in oil revenues once.
I suspect that there will be
(future tense) a very deadly clash between the Peshmerga
(KRG Military Forces) and the Iraqi National Army over the control of the Kirkuk area; as well as that of Sinjar. I suspect that there will be a fight, and as usual, the US will be caught in the middle.
Most Respectfully,
R