David Hirst, the former Middle East correspondent for
the Guardian, today has written a piece in Lebanon’s Daily Star entitled, A
Kurdish state is being established, and Baghdad may accept it. Hirst reviews a recent article by Abd
al-Jabbar Shabbout, the editor of Baghdad’s daily Al-Sabah and a confident of
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. Shabbout is offering an Option B to resolve
the current crisis in Kurdish-Arab relations: establishing a Kurdish state. To
read Hirst’s article, please click here.
File photo: Iraqi Kurdistan (WashPo)
Why was it expected of the Iraqi central government to relinquish territory to the Kurds and grant them autonomy, which they did, but at the same time, Turkey has not been pressured into entering dialogue to eventually recognize the demands of the Kurds inside Turkey. This is a hypocrisy of giant proportions.
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DeletePoison gas/Chemical attack on Halabja (16th March, 1988).
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