| Turkey has claimed the deaths were the result of civil unrest at a time of war and that Turks and Kurds also lost their lives. |
| This would be no more separatist than what the Americans have already conceded to the Kurds in the north. |
| Already, we've heard reports that Kurds have begun driving Arabs out of villages around Kirkuk, reclaiming their old lands. |
| Asked to choose between the Kurds and the Turks we might well become confused. |
| Even as the Kurds celebrate their success in becoming powerbrokers of the new Iraqi government, some old tensions are re-emerging. |
| Eventually the Kurds and the Turks sorted everything out and our convoy rolled out of Silopi. |
