Turkey fears Kurds, not Armenians

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Turkey fears Kurds, not Armenians

"We did not exterminate the Armenians," Ankara says in effect, "and, by the way, we're going to not exterminate the Kurds, too." Turkey's threat to invade northern Iraq in pursuit of Kurdish rebels is linked to its outrage over a US Congressional resolution recognizing that Turkey committed genocide against its Armenian population in 1915. Why the Turks should take out their rancour at the US on the Kurds might seem anomalous until we consider that the issue of Armenian genocide has become a proxy for Turkey's future disposition towards the Kurds.