"A Mediating Role for Turkey in Iraq
At long last the Iraqi Parliament has been invited to convene by President Talabani today Sunday, March 12, and to elect its speaker and deputy speaker, if they can.
The AKP government of Tayyip Erdogan is trying to play a greater role in the Middle East, not only in the Palestine-Israel conflict but also in the chaotic situation in Iraq by adopting an equal distance policy towards all sides. But for how long will this policy be sustainable? Will there be an Islamist Iraq under the Shiites, which would be a threat to Turkey? Low intensity civil war has been an ongoing fact of life in Iraq, which has now the propensity to turn into a fully fledged civil war, basically between the Shiite majority and the Sunni minority, to affect the rest of the ethnic groups, the Kurds, the Turkmens, Assyrians, etc."
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