[LoudRepublicangirl]

I believe it is. I think they deserve it more than anyone in Iraq. The problem is the Turks don't want the Kurds to have their own country in that part of Iraq so close to the Turkish border. They have a problem with the idea of Kurdish homeland.

[wildandcrazyrussian]

I believe it is. I think they deserve it more than anyone in Iraq. The problem is the Turks don't want the Kurds to have their own country in that part of Iraq so close to the Turkish border. They have a problem with the idea of Kurdish homeland. 30 posted on 04/07/2004 10:39:00 PM EDT by LoudRepublicangirl (loudrepublicangirl)
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The Turks have a problem with ANYBODY having a homeland.

After the parasitic Turkish nation invaded Asia Minor in the years after 1000 AD, wiping out ancient Christian civilizations there, then invading Europe in the 1300's and finally conquering in 1453 the Eastern Roman ("Byzantine") Empire which had saved Europe from Islam for a millennium, they have always ruled, even now, as the typical Islamic tyranny, treating their subjects as sub-human.

Ask the Armenians about the Turkish idea of respect for human rights.

[RPTMS]

I say screw the Turks if they don't like it! They probably didn't like the idea of a Greek homeland either.

[iconoclast]

The problem is the Turks don't want the Kurds to have their own country in that part of Iraq so close to the Turkish border.

Their problem is with the 20% of the Turkish population that is Kurdish.

I'd like to think that could be overcome but I don't think we've ever tried real hard.

The Cold War's over. We shouldn't have to kiss the Turks butts anymore.