Rapidly Growing Kurdish-Turkish Relations
Kurdish President Masoud Barzani today joined Turkish Prime
Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Diyarbakir, one of the largest Kurdish towns
in southeastern Anatolia region of Turkey, to address a huge public rally by
the Kurdish population in support of Turkish-Kurdish peace process.
“My request from my Kurdish and Turkish brothers
is to support the peace project. I want to tell them that we support the peace
process with all our force,” Barzani told the historic public gathering. (Hurriyet Daily News, 16 November)
“The time in the Middle East for living together has come. We can carry our people to happier days if we follow the methods of living together. Wars have been tried. The days when the blood of a young Turkish man was spilled by a Kurdish youth or the blood of a young Kurdish man was spilled by a Turkish youth are over,” Barzani added.
“The time in the Middle East for living together has come. We can carry our people to happier days if we follow the methods of living together. Wars have been tried. The days when the blood of a young Turkish man was spilled by a Kurdish youth or the blood of a young Kurdish man was spilled by a Turkish youth are over,” Barzani added.
Barzani, with Erdogan standing next to him, finished his speech by saying in Turkish, “Long Live Turkish and Kurdish Brotherhood! Long Live Peace! Long Live Freedom!”
On his part, Erdogan for the first time ever pronounced
the word “Kurdistan” as he greeted the people “of the Kurdistan region in
northern Iraq.”
“We will witness a new Turkey where those in the
mountains come down, the prisons empty and the 76 million [citizens of Turkey]
become one,” Erdogan said, hinting to a general amnesty. “In Diyarbakir, the
city of brotherhood, we are brothers from time immemorial. We are not fellow
travelers, we also share the same faith,” he added. (Hurriyet Daily News, 16
November)
The rapidly growing relationship between Barzani’s government in Iraqi Kurdistan and the Turkish government, and the Turkish-Kurdish peace process within Turkey, are the political manifestations of long-term economic and energy agreements between the two governments.
The rapidly growing relationship between Barzani’s government in Iraqi Kurdistan and the Turkish government, and the Turkish-Kurdish peace process within Turkey, are the political manifestations of long-term economic and energy agreements between the two governments.
The Turks are building a game-changing pipeline from the oil-rich
region of Iraqi Kurdistan directly to Turkish oil terminal and refineries. When
completed next year, the Kurds would sell their oil directly to energy-starving
Turkey, making them even more independent from Baghdad, with Turkey being
guaranteed a stable supply of oil through the pipeline, the least expensive method
of importing oil.
Photo
credit: Prime
Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan (L) and the President of the Iraqi Kurdish
Regional Government (KRG) Masoud Barzani (C) greet the crowd during a mass
opening ceremony in Diyarbakir; 16 November 2013 (AA/Hurriyet)
Meanwhile in islamic infested Iran a bunch of low life Iraqis in power are killing our citizens and causing our country harm.
ReplyDeleteGet a life, will ya??? How are Iranian leaders Iraqis? In fact, Iran-Iraq's relations go back thousands of years..Saddam sought to destroy it but failed...I'll give you a hint.."Baghdad" is a Persian name..Go figure!!!
DeleteAnon Nov 17,2013 AT 7:06PM- 'Get a life.............
Deletethe Guy above - 16th at-7:06 pm -is an imbecile ,he is living in a world of his own!.
LOL B.M.A !! You out of all people has institutionalized the word and meaning of "imbecile" !
DeletePersonal attacks are a sure sign of frustration! But I will forgive your ignorance.
ooOOO B.M.A is mad :)
Deleteanon 17 at 1:22pm --"personal attacks are a sure sign of frustration ".......................
Delete@ Thanks for forgiving !-oh WHAT a noble virtue to forgive! .and speaking of personal attacks, you see m to know that you are just out of order to curse and attack Leaders here with some obscene language on false grounds.
@-because you know and feel what it is to be attacked -COULD THIS BE A PROMISING SIGN THAT for once you are transforming to a WISE MAN?M
Anon. Nov. 17:th 5:34
DeleteMany of them are Iraqis. Have bothered to check where the Larijani brothers were born?
Or Shahrudi? (The previous head of Judiciary)
and many more.
These agreements come and go. Nationalist turks and separatist kurds at the ground level have no desire for these type of co-existence. Barzani, I recall that guy or his father who allied kurds with Shah against Saddam and then sold them. again like arabs kurds will start fighting with each other. io am sorry mt Uskowi to break the bubble but these people have no notion of tolerance or respect. i am not implying that we are superior to these people but facts speak for themselves. i don't think anything will come out of these. how many times turks have made peace with Greece/Greeks and always back to square one after a while. As the famous saying goes repect and tolerance is not in their DNA!
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