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Old 10-22-2007, 02:47 PM   #14
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Originally Posted by Juventus3 View Post
I'm not saying they haven't had a rough go of it. Obviously it's horrible what happened to them during the Iraq-Iran war, and maybe it's unfair of me to think that 25 years is enough to forget the pain they suffered, but my point is that the Iraq kurds don't seem to be too concerned about finding a solution to peace.
I think the Kurd's restlessness has more to do with founding a Kurdish state than what happened 25 years ago. 'Peace' = status quo = no Kurdish homeland/state, which is what they've been fighting for for decades. It's not hard to see why Turkey's version of peace doesn't work for the Kurds.
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