Eerik-Niiles Kross

One of the few Middle East experts in the Baltics. In 2003-2004 he worked as Senior Director of Intelligence Development for the CPA in Baghdad. He later advised the Iraqi Ministry of Defense and participated at the negotiations with the Kurdistan Regional Government on the new Iraqi Constitution and was responsible for aspects of developing the new Iraqi security services. He has also worked in Jordan and Lebanon. Kross has published several articles on the Middle East, Iraq, the Kurdish question and also Central Asia. Kross is the chairman of the Estonia-Kurdistan parliamentary group and a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Estonian Parliament

Politics

Why Kurdish Independence Should Be Supported

BY Eerik-Niiles Kross / October 6, 2015

The ongoing civil war in Syria and the war of the West with ISIS that invovles Iraq, Syria and several other countries in the region, is the fourth time during the last fifty years that the West has used the Kurds for its security policy interests. Estonian MP, former adviser to the Iraqi government and Middle East expert, Eerik-Niiles Kross says that the US and the West need to support Kurdish independence.