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Article: Ocalan, the Kurds and History.(US failure to recognize Kurds' right to independence in Turkey and its participation in catching Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan)(Brief Article)
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- The Nation
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- March 15, 1999
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The best day's work that Lenin ever did was to publish the secret treaties that the Bolsheviks found in the archives of the czarist regime. These covert agreements between the Allies in World War I made it perfectly plain that the objectives of the British and French were entirely imperial. Most revealing was the deal between the Anglo-French diplomatic team of Sir Mark Sykes and F. Georges Picot on the future dismemberment and sharing of the Ottoman Empire. Woodrow Wilson, eager to drag the United States in on the side of Lloyd George and Clemenceau, could not continue to posture about a war for democracy in the face of such cynicism. So in January 1918, only weeks after ...