Talabani’s visit to Turkey: Time to get rid of Barzani

News­pa­per Al-Hayat con­cen­trated on the impor­tance of Talabani’s visit to Turkey:

Tal­a­bani arrived to Ankara with high-rank Iraqi del­e­ga­tion, includes min­is­ters of Oil, trea­sury, Indus­try and Water Sources.

Al-Sharq Al-Awsat report shows Turkey’s humil­i­a­tion to Talabani:

Turkey insists that Talabani’s will not get the red-carpet treat­ment or the 21-gun-salute accorded to the Turk­ish protocols.

What is inter­est­ing about the above Al-Hayat link is the following:

Kur­dis­tan Alliance bloc fears that Talabani’s visit to Turkey in this “sen­si­tive time” is an attempt from Turkey to put dif­fer­ences between the Kurds and to iso­late Mas­soud Barzani.

The same view also seen by this arti­cle on Al-Khaleej few days ago:

Wash­ing­ton and Ankara agreed to speed up the with­drawal of the Turk­ish army from north­ern Iraq, in this process Turkey agreed to assist Wash­ing­ton to besiege Iran, and to limit the grow­ing Kur­dish leader Barzani head of Kur­dis­tan region influ­ence, who became a strate­gic prob­lem for Wash­ing­ton, espe­cially with his increas­ing role in the Iraqi polit­i­cal process and block­ing the Iraqi Oil and Gas law.

In another arti­cle from Al-Qabas, Turkey agree with the Amer­i­can view:

The last five years showed that Tal­a­bani unlike Barzani, took flex­i­ble posi­tions on Kirkuk issue, speak­ing of the rights of Turk­men in the city, and rejected the Kur­dish dream of an inde­pen­dent Kur­dish state, empha­siz­ing the need to live within the exist­ing bor­ders in Iraq, along with Syria, Turkey and Iran.

This explains U.S Deputy Assis­tant Sec­re­tary of State Matthew Bryza secret visit to Turkey last Sun­day as reported by Turk­ish news­pa­pers and Al-Qabas said that Talabani’s visit was one of the sub­jects he dis­cussed with the Turk­ish government.