Syrian Kurds waving a Kurdish flag and image of Abdullah Ocalan in Aleppo
Gareth Smith
Gareth Smith was a distinguished journalist who reported from the Middle East for over two decades. He served as the Financial Times correspondent in Tehran, where he was the chief Iran correspondent from 2003, following his earlier role as Lebanon correspondent. Throughout his career, Smith covered Middle Eastern affairs for leading media outlets, including The Financial Times, The Guardian, and the BBC. He also contributed as an editor to Executive magazine. His work as a freelance journalist in the 1990s, focusing on the politics of Iran and Iraq, paved the way for his appointment at the FT. In 2009, he relocated to the west coast of Ireland, where he balanced freelance journalism with his passion for nature and the land.
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Step 1. negotiations between the Kurdish parties of Iraq, Syria, and the government of Turkey to hammer out an interim, coalition government in which all Kurdish parties share power and declare an independent state of Kurdistan.
Step 2. Turkey grants Kurdistan diplomatic recognition and agrees to establish diplomatic and economic relations with the new state. In return, Kurdistan officially recognizes the territorial status of Turkey and renounces any claim to the Kurdish regions of Turkey’s south. The two states also agree to a defensive alliance as a means of shoring each other in regards to other parties in Baghdad, Damascus, and Tehran who might dispute the status of either nation.
Step 3. as part of this arrangement, southern Turkey becomes a demilitarized zone; Turkey maintains civil and economic administration of the region, but withdraws the bulk of its military and hands security duty to an international peacekeeping force composed of troops donated by nations from outside the region, and with Turkey maintaining the right to order these peacekeepers to leave should conflict break out. In return, Kurdistan renounces violence against Turkey and agrees to hand any individual Kurds guilty of crimes against Turkey over to the Turkish government for trial.
Step 4. for a temporary period, lasting several years, restrictions are eased on any Kurdish citizens of Turkey who wish to relocate to the new Kurdish state, while similar restrictions are eased on any Assyrians, Turkomans, or Arabs who wish to relocate to Turkey.
Step 5. Turkey and Kurdistan sit back and laugh while Damasus, Baghdad, and Tehran all fume.
DanRyan I think even I’m creating an independent Kurdistan as you see it you are marginalizing Kurds. There’s an estimated 40 million Kurds in the region and about 20 million live under occupation in turkey. Also you would have to put in the Kurdish population in iran into the equation. Also on a note about the over all article, the only group or party from the KRG that has a problem with the Rojava declaration is the KDP. That’s an important fact to look at.
It is very simple!
The Kurds only want their own state and their freedom in their land like a every nation exist in this planet.They do not attack anyboody and make a war to occupy other land.They have been discriminated and brutally killed,suppressed and displaced for many centuries.They have been betrayed in lozans and sevres .But enough is enough!.No body has right in anyway to decide for Kurds and keep their land occupied!.The Kurds have prevailed against all atrocities.They want to get their land back peacefully. But if not.they are ready to get it at every price.
The Kurds want to have a good relation with neigboor countries under the condition that they left the “Kurdistan” free.
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