Azamat wrote:@ alan & jjmuneer - You don't understand. An independent Kurdistan will NEED a link to the sea, and DESPERATELY at that, is it bound to survive. Or do you not find the idea of Kurdistan surviving with 5 hostile countries landlocking us unrealistic? The prospect of being forced into reliance on our enemy's mercy I find terrifying, not to mention a great impairment of our patriotism. Actually it's already happening in the KRG, with Turkish influence being channeled through countless layers, which range from economy, media, military, etc.
you have to be realistic and not ask for land which is not ours otherwise we are just like Turks and Arabs. and this landlock BS was put in our heads by Turks and Arabs . there is no such thing . we are not living in the Ottoman Era Back then, those empires could shut down the borders and impose embargos on people., we are living in the UN era , Arab Spring . those countries can not at any way block a country , this is BS , if Kurdistan declares a state , its a state and will of 5 million people , not an armed group or terror org , no one will allow those countries to block us let alone all the resources we have which the world needs . besides who lives on the borders of an independent kurdistan state ??? are the turks and arabs going to turn every kurd on the border into Jash !!?? , even if they did try to landlock us ,
1. the UN will not be silent they are blocking a whole nation not an armed group .
2. the kurds on the other side will make the flow of goods running .
3. KRG has 2 international airports to become 4 in the future , 25000 companies , 2000 factories and 27 consulates . ( which KRG did not have any of these from 91-03 and it survived just fine).
4. KRG has 22 oil companies operating in Kurdistan from 15 countries and they are building an oil infrastructure for a Kurdish state ,there is also 2 oil refineries which none of these existed from 91-03.
5. Iran cant close the border on a kurdish state they are facing international sanction themselves even their high officials are now coming out and admitting it has had a bad affect on Iran in all aspects.
6. if an embargo from UN forced on KRG from 91-03 did not make it non-survival , how is it 2-3 countries can make that happen !?? yes people were poor and stuff but it survived a good 20 years and with the current situation it will last for ever .
so please i dont want any Kurd repeating this BS which the Turks and Arabs have put into our heads . its 2011 not 1923.