I know what you think would work.
Creating a Kurdish state in Syrian/Iraqi & possibly Iranian land to move the Kurdish dream there.
You think this would stop the idea of Kurds in Turkey for their own state and make them move to Iraqi/Syrian Kurdistan.
While it might just aswell fuel more motivation for them to take that land, it will give them more power cause they would have a state just south of them.
Today Turkey being "friendly" to KRG is nothing but for Economic benefits, cheap oil/gas and Turkish companies investing, building hotels&malls.
Only your idea as I said might turn into a greater danger for "unified" Turkey, Kurds will not drop their seperatism in Turkey if they see a state in Syria or Iraq, it will give them more discipline to fight.
Screwing over Iraq might just be start of screwing your own country.
First of all, thanks for having a serious discussion about this and not killing me because of what I said.
You're definitely right in that I'm assuming that they will drop their ambitions and you're assuming the opposite. Until we see what happens its just a matter of competing opinions. Just a few points..
-I wouldn't suggest splitting of part of Iran for Kurdistan. It's just too close to Southern Azerbaijan. As a Pan-Turkist, while I'm not necessarily saying lets combine Turkey-S.Azer-Azerbaijan (I'm not even so sure Azerbaijan "unifying" would be a great idea), it would risk the geographic connection between Azerbaijan and Turkey to give land to Kurds there.
-I do think Kurds would drop their ambition for Turkish land. There's several reasons for this.
-A) They're main backer and only friendly nation surrounding them would be Turkey. Confronting Turkey is suicide.
-B) Essentially creating peace between Turkey and the Kurdish people would kill a huge recruiting point and rallying point for Kurds against Turkey.
-C) We'd have a target to hit if an independent Kurdistan tried to gain Turkish territory. It's a lot easier to bomb the **** outta Iraqi Kurdistan than to move around in your own country, avoid killing your own people, bombing your own buildings, and get shot at by cowardly terrorists than for the Turkish military to have a conventional target.
-D) Kurds would now have something to lose. Populations resort to terrorism because they have no economic/political incentive not to. They would have their own, probably pretty prosperous country to go to now. Keep in mind there's probably still a ton of unaccounted for Kurds in Turkey left over from Saddam gassing everyone. Their poverty and a lack of jobs is the main reason they support the PKK. Keep in mind, the Kurdish-populated parts of Turkey are very poor compared to the Western parts of Turkey. In the Middle East, bread on the table talks.
- I do agree though that right now the cooperation is based on economics. But economic incentives lead to lasting peace. Look at any place in the world where there's conflict and it's because there's no economic incentive to keep the peace. If Gaza wasn't so poor why would they fire rockets into Israel if they're growing economy could be destroyed by a few airstrikes?
