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Turkey would have to face Peshmarga if it
opposes Kurdistan independence
19.10.2006 |
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Peter Galbraith warned
that any attempt to attack the Iraqi Kurdish region
would wreck Turkey's goal of joining the EU.
The
Kurds in the north don’t want to be part of Iraq,
and in a referendum last year 98 percent voted for
independence
The former U.S ambassador to Croatia, Peter
Galbraith, stated in an interview with a German
newspaper that Ankara would end up battling over
100,000 Kurdish Peshmarga forces if it would
militarily intervene once Kurds declared
independence.
That, Galbraith said, would hold serious political
implications for Ankara. He ruled out any US support
to Ankara in the event of war with Kurds, since, he
said, US will not go to war again any time soon.
In an exclusive statement to the German Tiger
Zeitung paper, Galbraith warned that any attempt to
attack the Iraqi Kurdish region would wreck Turkey's
goal of joining the European Union, and would
possibly prompt the Kurds to create another Vietnam
within Turkey. |
Peter Galbraith, a former U.S. ambassador to Croatia
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Galbraith called upon Washington to remove its
troops from central and southern parts of Iraq and
relocate them to the Kurdish north of the country,
where they could fight hand in hand with Peshmarga
forces against Al-Qaeda.
On August 2006, Galbraith said the Kurds have
already created an independent state in northern
Iraq.
"I don't advocate the breaking up of Iraq,"
Galbraith told the Washington-based Middle East
Institute. "It has already disintegrated."
Galbraith,
said the Kurds have already achieved an independent
state in all but name. He said that formal
independence as well as a seat at the United Nations
would eventually take place despite Turkish
opposition, Middle East Newsline reported.
"I haven't met a single Kurd who would say 'I prefer
to live in Iraq' rather than in an independent
Kurdistan," Galbraith said on Aug. 21. "There's no
chance to persuade the Kurds to give up their
independence."
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