a very viable option for them i think he has a strong power base of people who believe that independence is the right way to go with all the collapsing structures and states around them and i think there is something else stake which is his political survival and his family's political survival because he's not an contender and there's other contenders and i think this referendum is a good opportunity to rally support in courtice tano in the caribbean northern iraq behind him and turkey really does not want this to happen how dangerous are those threats of intervention in turkey. turkey has been intervening in the north of iraq at multiple occasions they have been targeting the p k k in the condom mountains with the consent silent consent of the government by the way they have probably protested every now and then but they let them operate there. i think. of course we know him he would like strong words and he likes to express his views in a spectacular fashion but i think. the political strategic is they have made their