The final word is that the Iranians are blind to the fact that a unified Kurdistan state in the region is a necessity in a region where Arab and Turkic unions are already shaping. Back to Headlines 3. Once again, Turkey has staged a massive military assault on Iraq in furtherance of its campaign to eradicate Kurdish identity from the face of the earth. The American press remains silent on the repeated Turkish aggression against Iraq and the Kurds who live or seek refuge there from the Turkish army. The reasons for this are simple.
Turkey is a close ally of the United States and Israel.
Its appointed role is to act as a US military base on Iraq's northern flank, and to encircle the Arab world in alliance with Israel. In exchange, the United States supplies it with deadly weapons and pressures Europe to overlook Turkey's torture chambers. Its virulently nationalistic and ethnocentric state ideology is the backdrop for the suppression not only of any expression of their identity or culture by Turkey's twelve million Kurds, but of any overt expression of Islam, in a country that is overwhelmingly Muslim. The reason the media and the US government need to keep quiet about Turkey's repeated mini invasions of Iraq is because to mention them would interfere with the fictional pretext for the United States' own nefarious role in northern Iraq. Currently, the United States and its faithful servant Britain are bombarding northern Iraq on a nearly daily basis, killing Iraqis and destroying livestock and infrastructure.