Nicholas Borroz
( Washington D.C. based analyst of energy geopolitics and investment strategies, specializing in Southeast Asia and the Middle East)
Egemen B. Bezci
(Doctoral Researcher in the University of Nottingham focusing on secret intelligence cooperation between Turkey and the West)
Copyright: Research Institute for European and American Studies (www.rieas.gr) Publication date: 31 May 2015.
A Mossad agent drinks coffee in one corner of the cafe, making small talk with Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps members the next table over. American soldiers, meanwhile, play cards with Turkish intelligence officers. Two Iraqi security officials walk over, one comments on the Americans' dwindling poker chips, then both sit down to watch how the hand plays out. This is the Iraqi Kurdish capital of Erbil, and this is precisely how the Iraqi Kurds want it to be...Read more