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Nicholas Danforth, visiting senior fellow at the US German Marshall Fund think tank, said that negotiations between Turkey and the US had been hindered by the discrepancy between Turkey's stated desire for a safe zone that will keep its border safe and its deeper strategic interest in occupying enough of the region to prevent the emergence of an autonomous Kurdish statelet.

The Tribunal also convicted Dario Kordic, former leader of the self-proclaimed wartime statelet called the Croatian Republic of Herceg-Bosna, of crimes including the killings in Ahmici.

Their topics include from Byzantium to the West: "Croats and Carolingians" as a paradigm-change in the research of early medieval Dalmatia, Carolingian weapons and the problem of Croat migration and ethnogenesis, integration on the fringes of the Frankish Empire: the case of the Carantanians and their neighbors, the installation of the patron saints of Zadar as a result of Carolingian Adriatic politics, and trade and culture process at a ninth-century Mediterranean monastic statelet: San Vincenzo al Volturno.

supports several militant groups in Syria, notably Kurds, sparking fears that they might be trying to create a statelet outside the Syrian government's control.

Closely allied to China, the UWSA controls a secretive statelet the size of Belgium in the remote hills on Burma's eastern border.

"To call Northern Ireland a 'putrid little statelet' shows utter contempt to many who, like me, are deeply proud of the province" South Belfast MP Emma Little-Pengelly.

"A putrid little statelet" - Alex Maskey, a senior Sinn Fein representative's description of Northern Ireland.

In the interview, the former leader who ruled Yemen for 33 years insisted there was no place for a statelet within the state, referring to the Al Houthi militias.

Prlic, the former "prime minister" of a breakaway statelet, and his five co-defendants were found guilty in 2013 on 26 charges of taking part in a scheme to remove Bosnian Muslims "permanently and create a Croatian territory", which included the southern city of Mostar besieged for nine months.

Tourists who drink at licensed venues in the United Arab Emirates statelet can still be arrested for having alcohol in their system.

The Kremlin denies that Russian troops fought in Ukraine alongside anti-Kiev rebels, who carved out a statelet in the country's east after a pro-Russian government was toppled in 2014. 

Shabtini took over the outgoing minister's post in February after he announced his resignation from the Cabinet over what he called "unacceptable practices being carried out by Hezbollah's statelet and its allies."