The carve-up of Iraq will spawn a redivision of the Middle East
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1594437,00.html
The adoption of a weak Iraqi federal constitution is likely to unleash
an ethnic and sectarian crisis across the region
David Hirst
Tuesday October 18, 2005
The Guardian
In the great settlement that followed the first world war and the
collapse of the Ottoman empire, one of the Middle East's largest ethnic
groups, the Kurds, were the main losers. They had been promised their
own state, but, thanks to Kemal Ataturk's nationalist rebellion and
abandonment of the project by the western powers, they ended up as
repressed minorities in the four countries - Iran, Iraq, Turkey and
Syria - among which their vast domains were divided.
David Hirst
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