ly at best. Both Turkey and Iran perceive the addition of dissident Kurds to an already politicized indigenous Kurdish population as potentially volatile. Since the Gulf War, Iraqi Kurds have had a semi-autonomous existence; however, the Turkish PKK has made its own presence felt in Iraq since the 1991 Gulf War, leading to tensions between Turkey and Iraq (Graham-Brown, 1999).
Turkey has had to cope with terrorist activities initiated by the PKK for more than a decade (Omestad, et al, 1999). The PKK has been responsible for more terrorist acts than any other group in the world for this period, assassinating hundreds of political figures, bombing Turkish and Iraqi schools and hospital
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