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But until Turkey radically realigns its policies around the pursuit of peace with its own Kurds, it will continue to add to the region's troubles rather than help to contain them.

On top of complications arising from its poverty, its mostly Muslim culture and its mistreatment of the Kurds, it would be the largest member, with the most votes in the Council of Ministers and the most seats in the European Parliament.

"Ankara should not take a stand against the Syrian Kurds: It should take them by its side and walk together with them," Ms. Aydintasbas wrote.

But if AK fails to keep its promises to improve the lot of Kurds, it would be only a matter of time before the PKK rebels again.

Having perhaps never been truly serious about a settlement with Turkish Kurds, it then let the peace process slip away, and now finds its foreign policy warped through and through by its obsession with blocking the Kurds, to the point where it seems blind to all other considerations.

With its mixed population, 1m-strong, mainly of Sunni Arabs and Kurds, it hosts a large slice of Saddam Hussein's officer class and has, besides, a network of ultra-puritan Salafi mosques.

As complex relations with Syria, Iran and Iraq are also confirming again, Turkey must reach a political settlement with its own Kurds if it is to play a positive role in the region.

Landing at Erbil International Airport (as the Kurds call it, invariably also noting that it has one of the longest runways in the world), you see no shadow of an Iraqi, as opposed to Kurdish, presence.

"If Iraq ends up being broken apart, it's not because the Kurds wanted it," said Dr. Najmaldin Karim, an American citizen from Silver Spring, Md., who is now the governor of Kirkuk, a city divided by Kurds, Arabs and Turkmen.

I've spoken to several Kurds about it, from footballers to civil servants, and they all felt it was a positive move — a sign that they are being accepted (Kurds make up 15-20 percent of Iraq's population).

It bombed the domestic Kurdish rebel group, the PKK, last month even as Kurds accused it of ignoring the siege of Kobani, and some analysts worry the peace process to end the Turkish civil war is now essentially frozen.