"Turkey Needs US Assurances on Kurds
May 02, 2007 12:00 PM EST
The US can help calm the constitutional crisis in Turkey by reassuring the Turkish military about US intentions in Iraq. The US can reassure Turkey’s military by making explicit US policies that would preclude an independent Kurdistan, deter the PKK from using northern Iraq as a staging area for attacks inside Turkey, and discourage the Kurdish-Iranian alliance aimed at partitioning Iraq."
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