Syria Supports Turkey's Kurdistan Move


	Syria Supports Turkey's Kurdistan Move

abailart

10-21-2007 3:14 AM

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syria, turkey, iraq, kurdistan

abailart says:

The under-reported attrition against the Kurds by Syria, Turkey, Iran and Iraq (pre-invasion) over 30 years or so: another factor in the complex emerging in the middle east.

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