Turkey is the one to prompt the Kurds to establish the independent Kurdistan

PanARMENIAN.Net - The Turkish General Staff took no notice of the announcement of the militants from the Kurdistan Workers Party, according to which they agree to cease-fire in case the Turkish Army in its turn refuses to carry any military operations in Northern Iraq, informs the AFR Agency.

However, the Turkish party doesn't take any measures yet, moreover, according to difference sources, the number of the soldiers on the Iraqi border is about 100.000 people, including heavy artillery and helicopters. The operator of the Associate Press Television News noticed a military escort of about 150 people, bringing guns and containers with ammunition. The escort moved from southeastern Shirnak to Uludere, which is not far from the border.

Now the USA doesn't limit itself to calls to Turkey, it has already started to warn Iraq against the possible outcomes in case the Kurdistan Workers Party continues its "terrorist activities regarding Turkey". However things are not as simple as they may seem at first sight. According to The Los Angeles Times, "the Kurdish problem" is used as Turkish, Syrian, Iranian and Iraqi problem. "The US invasion of Iraq turned it into the American problem as well. David Petraeus, General in the United States Army and Commander of Multi-National Force is against involvement of the American troops in the war against the militants from Kurdistan Workers Party, who have a rather large territory in the Middle East under their control. But the USA may put pressure on the Kurdish leaders, so that they would free their territories from militants. In any case Washington must find a solution," said Petraeus.

It is quite evident that the USA wants to force Turkey back from the loot and the control over transportation of the Middle Eastern oil. The choice of the oil transportation route has an essential political significance and extremely beneficial economic outcomes for the country through whose territory the pipeline is carried. This is why the country which takes control over this issue will in future get not only economic benefits but a long-term geopolitical advantage in the region as well.

It should be mentioned that own oil supplies on the territory of Turkey, which at present are the object of industrial design, are concentrated in particular in the south-east of the country, in the Province of Batman. Besides, in case of the realization of the project of gas pipeline construction, joining the Azerbaijani birthplace of Shah Denis with the Turkish city of Erzrum, through which the gas pipeline joining Turkey with Iran runs, the USA securing its standings in Eastern Anatolia by the help of the Kurds, could control the energy vector supplies from the Central Asia to Turkey.

Today there are about 30-40 million Kurdish people in the world, twice less then the population of Turkey. However, since 1920 Turkey is trying to wipe out the Kurdish people, yet with no particular success. The instability of Iraq is a good reason to solve a part of the "Kurdish problem", but if the events start to develop more abruptly, the support of the Iraqi Kurds from the part of Syrian and Iranian Kurds is not excluded. All this is fraught with a big war in the Middle East and perhaps with the reshaping of already existing borders. It brings us to see that Turkey is the one to prompt the Kurds to establish the independent Kurdistan, or to be more exact to its widening, for something like an independent Kurdistan already exists in Iraq. Meanwhile, in Ankara in October 1992 the meeting of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Turkey, Iran and Syria, where the decision about leaving the territorial integrity unchanged was made, took place. At the same time various measures of counteraction of autonomisation of the Iraqi Kurdistan were legalized. The Turkish authorities resorted to such measures, since this interference is the most dimensional and most frequently practiced one in Turkey in 90's of the XX century, and according to the foreign analysts, has become a long-term factor identifying the crisis situation in the region.