A threat of a Sunni-Kurdish confederation or a test balloon?

Another Turkish-Iraqi ties hec­tic day as Iraq sum­moned the Turk­ish ambas­sador to express unease over Turkey’s poli­cies towards Iraq, while Ankara and Irbil become closer as Turkey’s most senior diplo­mat held unan­nounced meet­ing with Masoud Barzani, leader of the Kur­dis­tan Regional Government.

And the rea­son behind the new accu­sa­tions exchange is the new cir­cu­lat­ing rumors:

Sunni Arab lead­ers to dis­cuss with the Kur­dish alliance lead­ers the pos­si­bil­ity to change the polit­i­cal geo­graphic real­ity in Iraq and reduce the power monop­oly power of the Shi­ite par­ties to counter Iran’s grow­ing influ­ence in Iraq.

Accord­ing to sources, the Sunni fig­ures put for­ward new ideas to form a Sunni — Kur­dish con­fed­er­a­tion. The ideas put for­ward include that the new con­fed­er­a­tion to be headed by Pres­i­dent of Kur­dis­tan region Masoud Barzani, while the gov­ern­ment will be formed by a Sunni figure.

Every­thing right now depends on the new National Con­fer­ence which is expected to fail to achieve any results, and that will gen­er­ate a “Turk­ish — Kur­dish — US” con­fed­er­a­tion scheme with the sup­port of Saudi Ara­bia and Qatar.

But, these rumors are psy­cho­log­i­cal test bal­loon against Maliki’s Govt in order to offer more con­ces­sions to the Kurds and the Sunnis.