Turkey's Policy Towards Northern Iraq: Problems and Prospects (Adelphi series)

Park, Bill

ISBN 10: 0415382971 / ISBN 13: 9780415382977

Published by Routledge, 2005

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Turkey's Policy Towards Northern Iraq: Problems and Prospects (Adelphi series)
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415382971
• ISBN 13: 9780415382977
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 136.1 grams

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Synopsis

Iraq's Kurds are insisting that a federal Iraq grant them high levels of selfgovernment, including control over their own militia and parliament, that the oil-rich Kirkuk area (over which they already exercise considerable informal control) should be formally incorporated into the Kurdish zone, and that the 'Arabisation' policies of the former Ba'athist regime should be reversed. Indeed, they already enjoy considerable de facto control over the Kirkuk area. Ankara, for its part, has strongly signalled that excessive Kurdish autonomy and Kurdish control over Kirkuk are unacceptable, largely because of fears of the consequences for Turkey's Kurdish problem, and the possibility of Turkish military intervention has never been far away. This paper outlines the evolution of events in northern Iraq, and assesses the scenarios and options currently confronting Ankara, Washington and the Iraqi Kurds.

About the Author

Bill Park is Senior Lecturer at the Defence Studies Department, King's College, London, and lectures at the Joint Services Command and Staff College, Watchfield. His current research interest is Turkish foreign and security policy, on which he has published, lectured and broadcast widely.