"Iraq: Allaying Turkey's Fears over Kurdish Ambitions
Ankara/Amman/Brussels, 26 January 2005: While attention is focused on the insurgency against the interim Iraqi government and the occupation troops, another conflict is brewing in northern Iraq that could precipitate civil war, the break-up of the country and, in a worst-case scenario, Turkish intervention.
Iraq: Allaying Turkey's Fears over Kurdish Ambitions,* the latest report from the International Crisis Group, warns that tensions are at boiling-point in the oil-rich Kirkuk region. The U.S. and EU need to do more to resolve the Kirkuk question and help Ankara protect its vital interests without resort to destabilising threats of military intervention."
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