"The Iraq mess: Kurdish separatists add to witch's brew
Editorial
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
11-APR-06
Last week another Iraq war-related problem turned up. In southeast Turkey, near its border with Iraq, ethnic Kurd separatists encouraged by the growing independence of Kurdistan in northern Iraq battled with Turkish security forces, leaving 15 dead.
The United States has leaned on Iraq's Kurds for support since the beginning of the Iraq war. In the beginning it was because the Kurds were opposed to Saddam Hussein's Arab regime. Later, it was because the Kurds were the only important Iraqi group that appeared to like the United States."
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