Is Turkey ready for a free Kurdistan State?

Since June 10, the day when jihadist terrorists of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) seized control of Mosul, the situation in the field has been getting worse every day, with the worrying prospect of a large scale civil war between Iraq’s two prominent sects, Shiites vs. Sunnis.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, in his address to European Union ambassadors on Tuesday, described the situation in the neighboring country as a “civil war” and underlined that the only way to escape unwanted developments was the formation of a coalition government in Iraq. By coalition government, Erdoğan means the establishment of an all-inclusive government that will embrace Iraq’s different ethnic and sectarian groups without discrimination.

He stressed thatgrowing sectarian-based unrest had brought the country to the edge of fragmentation and warned that Iraq was going through an even bloodier period compared to the civil war that took place in 2007 and 2008. The international community is also responsible for today’s picture because it downplayed Nouri al-Maliki’s sectarian policies, Erdoğan accused.

“Spoiling al-Maliki is one of the reasons for what we are observing nowadays,” he said. “The Iraqi army is composed of 98 percent of Shiites, in order to create the base of a sectarian conflict. Can you imagine something like this?”

Erdoğan’s statement that there is a need for a new inclusive government is in fact shared by the majority of members of the international community, including the United States.

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