SECURITY REPORT : COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS (CFR)
“If the Kurds succeed in establishing an autonomous state, the secessionist movements in other Kurdish areas of the Middle East could accelerate, intensifying ongoing sectarian conflicts in the region. Heightened terrorist activity by Kurdish separatists is a growing concern for the United States, which has designated the PKK as a foreign terrorist organization and wishes to maintain the territorial integrity of states in the region,” said the report