it's a question of legitimising the Turkish Kurds' standpoint.

I guess I'm changing the argument now, but I don't see where the Turks have a leg to stand on as far as their repression of the Kurdish community goes. The Turkish Kurds are hardly any more than unnamed slaves, as far as I can see.

But back to the question, they've alway been separate from Saddam's Iraq. I don't think that a population that is either under attack or ignored is really part of that country. At least Turkey keeps an iron fist over their Kurds -- not let them roam ``free''.