The Middle East has acquired immense strategic value as one of the determining fulcrums in the global balance of power due to its being the world’s largest known storehouse of low-cost energy supplies. The region’s geopolitical importance, the kaleidoscopic nature of politics among its states, the presence of volatile social and political forces within them and the interference of world superpowers all insure that the region will remain a potentially explosive source of tension for years.
Emboldened by its military strength after World War II, Moscow prepared to carve up its southern neighbors. It demanded territorial concessions and control of the Bosporus from Turkey and refused to withdraw from northern Iran, which it had occupied in 1941. Turkey and Iran rebuffed S...
The assaults and the terrorist attacks on innocent Turkish people and the Turkish troops’ steady orientation toward the southeastern region of Turkey force us, the academics, to dig deeper into fact and reason.
The deeper we go, the more we’re faced with interesting docu-mentation and realities.
Just until a few years ago, Massoud Barzani, the current leader of the Iraqi Kurdish region, was just a tribal leader. The only way he could travel abroad was with a diplomatic passport issued by the Tur-kish government. Saddam never issued him a passport, nor was he treated as the leader of Iraqi Kurds by the then Iraqi government.
Taking into consideration the ongoing civil war and the backup given by the occupying power in Iraq — the US government — ...
Türkiye’mizin güneydoğu bölgelerinde yaşayan insanlarımıza ve askerlerimize yapılan kalleş PKK saldırıları, biz araştırmacı akademisyenleri de olayları araştırmaya ve kökenine inmek sarmalına sarıyor.
Araştırdıkça, ilginç belgelere ve gerçeklere ulaşıyoruz.
Irak’ın kuzeyinde daha düne kadar aşiret reisi olan Barzani, bu günlerde Irak’ın zayıf durumundan istifade edip, Bağımsız bir Kürt devleti kurmak hayallerine kapılmış.
Bu hayalindeki devletin Anayasasını bile hazırlamış, hem de 19 Nisan 2004 tarihinde. Yani bundan tamı tamına üç yıl evvel.
Kaleme aldığı anayasası, normal büyüklükteki 10 punto harflerle yazıldığı vakit 15 adet A4 boyutunda sayfa tutuyor. Bu anayasa...
