Turkish Ambitions in Iraq  About 100,000 Turkish troops, backed
by aircraft and tanks, are poised to enter Iraq for
counterterrorism purposes. But once there, they might just stay
permanently, occupying the Mosul area, leading to dangerous
regional consequences.  To understand this danger requires a
refresher in Turkish irredentist ambitions harking back to the
1920s. The Ottoman Empire emerged from World War I on the losing
side, a predicament codified in 1920 by the Treaty of Sèvres
imposed on it by the victorious Allies. The treaty placed some
Ottoman territory under international control and much of the
rest under separate Armenian, French, Greek, Italian, and
Kurdish control, leaving Turkish rule to continue only in a
northwest Anatolian statelet.  Kemal Atatürk's military
victories of 1919-22 and the reassertion of Turkish power,
Sèvres was never applied. Instead, the Treaty of Lausanne,
signed in 1923, established all of Turkey's present borders but
the one with British-occupied Iraq. For Iraq, Lausann