Turkey's Kurds prefer peace prospects at home to perilous statehood in Iraq
 

By Ayla Jean Yackley ISTANBUL (Reuters) - What has long been a dream for the Middle East's Kurds, an independent state, is within reach in Iraq, but Turkey's Kurds, wearied by a 30-year conflict with Ankara, see a brighter future at home, where negotiations could deliver the rights they have fought for. At Istanbul's Kurdish Institute, where 400 students are learning Kurdish, they are riveted by events across the border in Iraqi Kurdistan, which appears to be hurtling toward independence as state forces retreat and Sunni militants, led by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), an al Qaeda offshoot, seize parts of **rthern Iraq. Events are **t, for **w at least, stirring separatist sentiment in Turkey, where many Kurds prefer to put their faith in greater auto**my within the established borders of a booming eco**my than in the vagaries of a new nation state surrounded by hostile neighbors.

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