Sunday, July 29, 2012

The kurdish factor in the Syria`-Iraq-Turkey gepolitical triangle

Within all the turmoil that has shaken the political stability suddenly in countries such as Syria, Irak and the role that Turkey has come to play as a regional force to mediate in each particular circumstance, hides one vital and strategic geopolitical factor that could be the final spark to transform and give shape to a new landscape in this particular triangle, such as the Kurdish people and its political force. To this respect we have seen in the first place since the war in Irak ended, how to the Baghdad central government disbelief and grief , the Kurdistan government has given away lots of contracts and licenses to many non US companies and many chinese and british oil companies, to work in the main oilfields located at the norhernmost part of iraqi sector (kurdish that is to say) where the kurdish autonomy has a considerable sovereignty, and at the sametime claiming ever more power apart from Irak central government. Besides this fact, many times we have read and heard about attacks and sabotages actions aimed at the Irak-Turkey pipeline perpetrated by the armed force of the Kurdistan Workers Party, in a move to demand more autonomy by the kurdish sector located inside Turkety (another part of the kurdish triangle), and then we find another piece in the kurdish geopolitical puzzle, this time, in the syrian turmoil, which, if it joins forces with the Syrian Free Army, and if it gains total control of the country and topples al Assad`s government, could garner an even greater influence and acknowledgement by the international community (this talking about a hypothetical Kurdistan Republic recognized by the UN in the near future). But this of course will depend on the support of two big regional and world powers and these two deal with the kurdish government, the USA and Turkey, at the end, their most important supporters as well as foes at the same time, depending on how they behave according to the former actors desire in the regional geopolitical puzzle. But beware, because the Kurdistan want their say too in regional affairs, and they have too much oil on their soil to do so.

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