"Turkish election important
Turkey is having an election Sunday, and unfortunately, because it has become so entangled in the area, the United States will be affected.
The biggest area of concern for the U.S. has to do with Turkey's shaky relations vis-a-vis northern Iraq, the area populated mostly by Kurds, which is rapidly becoming a de facto Kurdistan. If that were all, it could point a way forward for Iraq -- de facto partition, regardless of what the formal political structure is. However, there are Kurds in Turkey and Iran as well, and especially in Turkey they have been battling the central government for independence, autonomy or something for many years. The Turks haven't exactly been kind over the years either."
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