Turkey and Iraq : the perils (and prospects) of proximity / by Henri J. Barkey.

Author/creator Barkey, Henri J.
Other author United States Institute of Peace.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoWashington, DC (1200 17th Street NW) : U.S. Institute of Peace, [2005]
Description23 p. : digital, PDF file
Supplemental Contenthttps://purl.fdlp.gov/GPO/LPS104256
Subjects

Variant title At head of title: Iraq and its neighbors
Portion of title Perils and prospects of proximity
SeriesSpecial report ; no. 141
Special report (United States Institute of Peace) 141. ^A469213
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.
General noteTitle from title screen (viewed July 25, 2005).
General note"July 2005."
General noteGPO Cataloging Record Distribution Program (CRDP).
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web from USIP web site. Address as of 7/25/05: http://www.usip.org/pubs/specialreports/sr141.html; current access available via PURL.
GPO item number1063-K (online)
Govt. docs number Y 3.P 31:20/141

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