In the latest edition of his memoirs released this month, Iraqi Kurdish leader Masoud Barzani disclosed for the first time that the late former Turkish President Turgut Ozal "frankly" proposed that Turkey annex Iraqi Kurdistan in the aftermath of the 1991 Gulf War. But how serious was this proposal? "It is a well-known fact that Ozal thought outside the box regarding the Kurdish question after he became President in 1989," Gunes Murat Tezcur, a professor at the University of Central Florida where he holds the Jalal Talabani Endowed Chair, told The New Arab. "He perceived the US-led military operation to remove Saddam's forces from Kuwait as a unique historical opport
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