Abstract

The article aims to explore internal and external conditions that unprecedently determined Turkey’s low profile response to the most advanced Kurdish autonomy agreement between Baghdad and Barzani on 11 March, 1970. Despite Ankara’s complete denial of the Kurdish presence in its own territory and thereby its vulnerability to the transborder Kurdish developments, the Turkish government unprecedently reacted calmly and gave the cold shoulder to the agreement. Was this a disguised reaction or an expression of the real Turkish considerations about the Kurdish-Iraqi deal? In order to comprehend the reasons behind the restrained Turkish reaction to the agreement, several elements are to be explored simultaneously. Taking the multiple causes of the Turkish response into account, the article will shed light on a little-explored issue, the Turkish policy towards the transborder Kurdish developments in the Cold war. Furthermore, it will provide relevant historical background to comprehend Turkey’s present relations with the Kurds of the Middle East in the context of increasing internationalization of the Kurdish issue.

摘要

本文旨在探讨内部和外部条件，这些条件前所未有地决定了土耳其对 1970 年 3 月 11 日巴格达和巴尔扎尼之间最先进的库尔德自治协议作出低调回应。库尔德人的跨境事态发展，土耳其政府前所未有地冷静反应，对协议置若罔闻。这是变相的反应还是表达了土耳其对库尔德-伊拉克交易的真实考虑？为了理解土耳其对协议反应克制的原因，需要同时探讨几个要素。考虑到土耳其回应的多种原因，本文将阐明一个鲜为人知的问题，冷战期间土耳其对跨界库尔德发展的政策。此外，它将提供相关的历史背景，以在库尔德问题日益国际化的背景下理解土耳其目前与中东库尔德人的关系。