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Article: They deserve a break; Kurds, in Iraq and elsewhere.(Kurdish prospects and rewards)(Kurds and the war in Iraq)
- Article from:
- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- March 29, 2003
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The Iraqi Kurds have had to trim their demands but they should still get as much as possible
TURKEY'S refusal to give America the full support it requested is bound to increase the importance of the Kurdish guerrilla forces in the war for northern Iraq. It may also raise the stakes in the minds of Iraqi Kurdish politicians. What reward will they expect at the end of the war, and to what extent can these expectations be fulfilled?
The self-rule that the 4m Kurds in northern Iraq have enjoyed since the end of the last Gulf war has given solid flesh to disembodied Kurdish aspirations. But since the Iraqi Kurds are surrounded by jumpy neighbours with their ...
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