title:
Turkey and Iraq the perils (and prospects) of proximity
title:
Perils and prospects of proximity; Iraq and its neighbors
creator:
United States Institute of Peace
creator:
Barkey, Henri J.
publisher:
United States Institute of Peace
date:
Record modified: 2011-09-08
date:
Record created: 2008-07-30
date:
Available: 2005-07
date:
2005
description:
Extent: 23 p. : ill., map.
description:
Abstract: Throughout the 1990s, Turkey was the anchor in the containment of Saddam Hussein's Iraq by the United States. The unpredictable set of events unleashed by Operation Iraqi Freedom has unnerved both Turkish decision makers and the public alike. The U.S.-led coalition's operation in Iraq has also upended Turkey's fundamental interests in Iraq, which are fourfold: (1) Prevent the division of Iraq along sectarian or ethnic lines that would give rise to an independent or confederal Kurdish state (with the oil-rich city of Kirkuk as its capital), thus supporting aspiratins for a similar entity in Turkey's own extensive Kurdish population. (2) Protect Turkish-speaking Turkmen minority, which resides primarily in northern Iraq. (3) Eliminate the Kurdistan Workers' Party, the Turkish Kurdish insurgent movement, which has sought refuge in the northeast of Iraq following its defeat in 1999. (4) Prevent the emergence of a potentially hostile nondemocratic fundamentalist Iraqi state.
description:
"July 2005."; Title taken from title screen (viewed July 25, 2005).; Includes bibliographical references.
subject:
Turkey--Foreign relations--Iraq
subject:
Kurds--Turkey
subject:
Kurds--Iraq
subject:
Iraq War, 2003---Kurds
relation:
OCLC No.: 61134660
relation:
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
relation:
Is part of: Special report ; no. 141; Special report (United States Institute of Peace) ; no. 141.
type:
application/pdf
type:
Text
type:
PDF-1.3
source:
http://www.usip.org/pubs/specialreports/sr141.pdf
source:
http://www.usip.org/pubs/specialreports/sr141.html
language:
eng
rights:
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identifier:
sr141
