The KDP has gifted Southern Kurdistan oil to Erdoğan and has allowed him to open military bases in the region, and Erdoğan repaid the favors by threatening the Southern Kurdistan administration with the NSC over the referendum.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s animosity against Kurds knows no bounds: Erdoğan threatened the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) Leader Masoud Barzani with the National Security Council (NSC) over the referendum.
Erdoğan said they pulled the NSC meeting from September 27 to September 22 due to the referendum in Southern Kurdistan and mentioned KDP Leader Barzani’s name followed by the threat: “He will see how far our sensibilities go in this issue more clearly.”
KDP gifts 500.000 barrels of oil every day to Erdoğan, who took his threats further: “Our opinion is known, but now he [Barzani] will see how far our sensibilities go in this issue more clearly after the National Security Council on the 22nd and the Cabinet meeting.”
Erdoğan continued: “For one, we are the ones who have a 350 km border with Iraq. Here on one side there is Iran, on the other there is Syria. The situation in Syria is known. What is our stance here? We stand for the territorial integrity of Iraq. Iran shares the same view. Despite all this, if you go attempt a declaration of an independent state here, no offense, but everybody won’t just be saying ‘yes’ just like that.”
In their earlier statements, the KDP administrators had claimed “Turkey is not against the referendum”.
