Turkey Accuses U.S. of 'Favoritism' in Iraq

[Khephra]

Turkey Accuses U.S. of 'Favoritism' in Iraq
By REUTERS

Published: November 4, 2003


Filed at 11:14 a.m. ET

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Turkish ambassador in Washington said on Tuesday the United States was giving excessive favors to Kurdish groups in Iraq, at the risk of encouraging civil war and Kurdish secession in the future.

``The Kurdish representation is much in excess of their real standing in the society,'' Ambassador Osman Faruk Logoglu said at a breakfast for defense writers.

``We think there is too much favoritism ... being given to specifically the Kurdish groups, (on) who runs (Iraq) and how the future of the country is going to be structured,'' he said.

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[htuttle]

1. Kurdistan became functionally independent...

...on March 20, 2003.


Not everyone realizes it yet, but I think it will become more apparent as time goes on.

Question is: Who gets the oil fields in the north?

[nickgutierrez]

2. Kurdistan already is important

They're a crucial political force: they need to have some hand in the new Iraq, else they attempt to split off. That wouldn't make Turkey happy, of course, and there's already the possibility that all hell is going to break loose. This wouldn't help.