Germany against independent Kurdish state "Might further tensions in region"

Germany against independent Kurdish state "Might further tensions in region" (TOI).

BERLIN — Germany is opposed to the formation of an independent state by Iraq’s Kurds, who are currently battling Islamic State jihadists with Western help, Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said Sunday.

“An independent Kurdish state would further destabilize the region and trigger new tensions, maybe with the neighboring Iraqi state as well,” he told the Bild newspaper in an interview.

The aim, he added, “was to manage to preserve Iraq’s territorial integrity”.

Kurdistan, in northern Iraq, is already an autonomous region. Its fighters are being backed by US air power and Western arms deliveries in the fight against Islamic State jihadists.Hmmm....Can't have a Second Israeli ally, can we?