The current crisis invites us to move the center of the map over Turkey.

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Ask about travel advisories concerning Turkey--then amend your map.

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Turkey fears that Iraqi Kurds, who set up an autonomous administration in northern Iraq after the 1991 Gulf war, might use the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime as a pretext for setting up a Kurdish state, thereby encouraging similar sentiments among Turkey's extensive Kurdish population (see map).

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Turkey, of course, appears in the lower right-hand corner of such a map -- a sort of marginal nation, seemingly at the fringes of what matters in the world.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy