STRATEGIC POLICY OF APPEASEMENT

Full independence would also be among the alternatives in any case. Thus the Kurdish people will use their self-determination and form the legal foundation of a state. Official voices of the Kurdish administration in northern Iraq on the other hand, are stating that general elections will be held in March 2005. All these are the signs of an independent Kurdish state.

In Iraq, which goes through a chaos after the war, forming the legal construction for the future is one of the most difficult problems that the international society faces: What kind of a structure? Will it be formed according to a controversial concept of ‘Iraqi nation’ based on ethnic and religious diversity? The aftermath of a war, which began with a big lie, about ‘weapons of mass destruction’ but was nothing more that an ‘oil imperialism,’ is much more difficult then the war itself. The United States is aware of that, but it is too late. Moreover, its utterances and attitudes are not consistent. As everyone does, Washington does also talk about Iraq’s ‘territorial integrity’ and a political structure based on this integrity. But even the governing council that they have formed is based on ethnic diversity and religious sects. This kind of a development will definitely reach a political structure without a national unity. Could the US not be aware of the dangers that this approach implies for the countries in the region? Especially if the region in question, shelters the remaining of a terror that lasted for years in at least one of those countries like Turkey. Is it possible that a Kurdish state would abstain from being the core of some separatist movements in Iran, Turkey and in some extend Syria? What is the meaning of insensitivity of the US, who claims that it has a ‘strategic partnership’ with Turkey, towards the Kurdish movement and PKK’s existence in northern Iraq?

Partnership, especially ‘strategic partnership’ requires self-existence and forthright. For example, Washington, before becoming a supporter for Turkey in its European Union membership bid, should explicitly state what it wants to do in northern Iraq.“