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Wednesday, May 31, 2006

The Kurds Have No Friends . . .

"The Kurds Have No Friends . . .
. . . except the mountains.
by Peter Church
05/31/2006 12:00:00 AM

SO GOES AN OLD KURDISH ADAGE. On a recent visit to Turkey's southeastern city of Van, a Kurdish businessman told me that, 'America has just one friend in the Middle East and that is the Kurds. Kurdish people like America because of protecting Kurds in north Iraq. But if America fights Kurds, it will lose Kurdish friends.'"

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