How should Turkey react to the elections in Iraq?
By Dr. Cneyt Ulsever It is believed here in Turkey that oil revenue from Kirkuk may encourage Kurdish dissatisfaction with a stake in a federal government and push them to eventually demand an independent state, potentially attracting Turkish Kurds to join them The first-ever elections in Iraq since Saddam took power were finally held, and nobody can deny that regardless of their faults, it was a great leap forward. The Shiites and Kurds welcomed the elections. The Sunnis overall, however, were not happy with them, simply because, although they are a minority at around 20 percent of the population, they were the ruling group during the Saddam era. Unfortunately, not knowing how to react to this democratic imposition, the Sunnis seem more or less to have fallen under the control of Islamist terrorist organizations such as al-Qaeda. The majority of the Sunnis did not go to the polls on Sunday, but we can’t deny that it was the threat of terror that kept them from the polls as much as the
