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issues, the fact that USA has withdrawn from the region should be
taken into consideration. In order to preserve the privileged status

they have attained by means of the USA, the Iraqi Kurdish region
needs the existence of a friendly and strong neighboring country.
When these conditions are taken into consideration, it can be seen
that Iraqi Kurdish Autonomous region needs the support of Turkey
more than ever and every now and then Barzani voices this demand.
Of course Barzani's security of life should be ensured primarily. Tak-
ing into account the peril facing Barzani, who is under constant threat
by the PKK and who has had to deal with covert PKK supporters
within his army, it is both crucial and urgent that Turkish Special

Forces and the MIT (Turkish National Intelligence Organization)
should protect him.

Former CIA agent Graham Fuller, who said that the Great Mid-
dle East Project has turned into a disaster and confessed that Turkey's
involvement in American plans would come to mean signing its
death warrant, also made another accurate assertion; "Turkey can solve
the PKK problem if they can succeed to increase their dialogue with Iraqi
Kurds." 127

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