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"Additionally, the US secretary of state tried to calm Turkish concerns that Kurdish control might extend southward to control the oil fields where a pipeline to the Turkish port of Ceyhan originates."

Excellent follow on article!

Do you think this may be a once in a lifetime opportunity to overwhelm the PKK and get Turkey on the same page as the Kurds or is this not possible, in your opinion?

>> Do you think this may be a once in a lifetime opportunity to overwhelm the PKK and get Turkey on the same page as the Kurds?

I believe that this is an opportunity to clear Irak of terrorist entities which pose a threat to the US and Turkey. What will most likely happen, though, is that these will find shelter in Iran. Iran had been handed a dossier of intelligence, including satellite pictures, detailing terrorist PKK training camps, which they had vehemently denied.

Peace and security in Turkey are not in Iran's not Russia's interest, mostly because of present and future oil pipelines which transit Turkey pose competition to their oil industries.

As for Turkey getting on the same page with Kurds, that is already a reality, excepting the feudal monarchs and terrorists who have so much to lose by the democracy imminent in Irak. Kurds from northern Irak escaped to Turkey by the hundreds of thousands during the aftermath of Gulf War 1, which is an indication of trust. Reading the AP, Reuters, and AFP reports, however, you'd come to a different conclusion..