Peter Lyukimson, Israel. Exclusively to Vestnik Kavkaza
Informed sources report that the presidential envoy of the Kurdish Autonomy in the north of Iraq recently visited Israel. Israel is not the only country of the region which members of Masud Barzani’s team have recently visited. Representatives of the Kurdish Autonomy have held secret talks with authorities of the Arab countries, Russia, and some countries of the CIS, including countries of the South Caucasus.
The target of the mission is gaining support of the countries for the idea of establishing an independent Kurdish state which will include the territory of the Kurdish autonomy and probably a part of current Syria.
According to Israeli experts, these days the multimillion Kurdish nation is very close to fulfilling its national dream – establishing of its own state. A series of factors encourage this.
First of all, for the first time for decades the Kurds got a leader who managed to unite all the political parties and groups on the pan-national idea. Barzani convinced even the radical PKK to forget internal conflicts for a while and follow the united political tactics and strategy. Today the Kurdish Autonomy in Iraq is an island of peace and relevant prosperity in this country, and its government totally controls the situation in the Autonomy.
The same relevant peace triumphed in Syrian Kurdistan when the governmental troops of Bashar Assad withdrew from it. An administrative government of the territory was established, and it was also actually controlled by Barzani and consolidated over his ideas.
The situation in Syrian Kurdistan has become tense in recent weeks when so-called rebels from the Free Syrian Army appeared there. This is about the militants of two radical Islamist organizations - Jabhat an-Nuṣrah and the Islamic State in Levanta. Last week 40 thousand refugees came from Syria to the Kurdish autonomy.
The Kurdish Autonomy is seriously discussing getting involved in the war to stop the bloodshed of their country fellows in Syria and extend the borders of the Kurdish Autonomy, which is today “a state-to-be.”
Today political analysts of various countries discuss what the consequences of the appearance of a state called Kurdistan could be.
