Unsuccessful blitzkrieg or strength trial?

PanARMENIAN.Net - He called the PKK to signing an armistice, saying that for the regional government of Kurdistan it is not acceptable that offensives on neighboring countries are held from the territory of Iraqi Kurdistan. Together with this Barzani is certain that the USA's behavior was not appropriate. "We think that it was a big mistake from the part of the USA to have allowed Turkey to invade and bombard the territory of Kurdistan. It wasn't supposed to happen." He also touched upon the issue of Turkish military bases, and mentioned that the Kurds, together with Baghdad will put the question of their withdrawal.

The Turkish sudden actions gave birth to a number of questions among which the most important one is whether or not Iraq is a sovereign state. If yes, which were Turkey's grounds for invasion of the territory of the independent state? If no, then the USA carries all the responsibility for the lack of adequate reaction on such a unfriendly action from the part of its Turkish allies.

The next question is: Why did the Turkish authorities choose this exact period for carrying such a wide-raging operation against the Kurds. The Kurdish troops are situated in the mountainous areas, and these areas are very difficult to access both from air or land either in summer or in winter, when the mountains of Kurdistan are all covered with snow and the
roads are closed. Things are more or less clearer here - "little victorious war" is needed for "concealing" the inner political crisis in the Turkish society and the gaps caused by the expansion of the relations between the Turkish troops, political groups and public powers on the one hand, and between the current and other authorities on the other.

There are big disagreements between the militants, who have been the guarantee of the secular way of Turkey's development since the times of Kemal Ataturk and the Turkish government with its pro-Islamic traits, trying to fasten the Islamic values in the country. The local war is necessary for the Turkish Islamists to distract the attention of the Turkish society from the creeping Islamification for political survival and blaming the nation's resentments on the Kurds.

According to experts, the government of Recep Erdoghan may have the opposite results. After Turkey's recognition of the independence of Kosovo and the continuation of the Turkish offensives in Iraqi Kurdistan which causes the sufferings of the majority of the population, the answer to the Turkish actions may become the declaration of the independence of the territory of Iraqi Kurdistan. And if for the official Ankara the Kurdish rebels are taken for terrorists, the Kurdish party they are the symbol of the national aspiration, assertion for political and cultural rights of the great nation, which is separated by the historical injustice with four borders.

It must be mentioned, that with the demand of several political groups, in the European Parliament on March 3-4 a conference is being held with the title of "The Destiny of the Kurdish Problem in Northern Kurdistan". The importance of this conference is undeniable, since Turkey is not standing on the threshold of big changes, also constitutional changes. The conference is organized with the initiative of five groups: the socialists, liberal, greens, "Democrats for Europe", and "Free Europe". Famous political figures and parliamentarians from Turkey and Europe, as well as Turkish journalists
are invited to participate in the conference.