"Turkey's New Strategy in Northern Iraq
Olga ZHIGALINA
By 2006, it transpired that the potential partition of Iraq along ethnic lines would concern not only the regional countries with extensive Kurdish-populated areas (Turkey, Iran, and Syria), but also the neighboring Arab ones (the Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Kuwait). The latter view with a great deal of reservation the US plan for a Greater Middle East. This plan envisions a well-defined role to be played by the Kurdish factor. The leaders of these countries demanded that the US should admit them to the negotiations on the future of Iraq. It was not easy for Washington to respond to the demand positively due to the imminent tensions between the US and the countries where the Kurdish population resides (Turkey, Iran, and Syria)."
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