Posted on 07/28/2005 10:51:04 AM PDT by areafiftyone
LONDON; Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan warned on Thursday he could take action against Kurdish guerrillas in Iraq if U.S. forces did not stop the rebels infiltrating across the border into Turkey.
"At the moment, frankly speaking, we do not see the efforts by the U.S. that we expect to see. We have expressed our views to that effect to the Americans," Erdogan said in an interview with Britain's Times newspaper.
"There is a time limit. There is a limit to our tolerance," said Erdogan.
He said Turkey was within its rights under international law to defend itself from attack and drew a comparison with U.S. action against Afghanistan after the Sept. 11 attacks in 2001.
"That mandate is provided for in international law," he said.
"If a country, if a people, if a nation are under threat, that country can do what is necessary under international law ... we would exercise that right in the same way as any other country could, would and did exercise that right."
Turkey has blamed the banned Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) for a rash of violence in the southeast of the country and says the guerrillas use bases in northern Iraq as a launchpad for attacks.
Despite a lull in violence after the capture of PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan in 1999, fighting has increased sharply since the group called off a unilateral ceasefire last year.
The PKK has waged an armed campaign for an independent Kurdish homeland in southeast Turkey since 1984, and more than 30,000 people have been killed in the fighting.
Turkey has vowed never to negotiate with the PKK and together with the United States and the European Union brands the group as a "terrorist organization."
Ankara fears Kurds might establish an independent Kurdish state in northern Iraq and that this in turn could ignite separatism among Kurds in southeastern Turkey.
U.S. forces in Iraq are heavily committed against a Sunni Arab insurgency in central areas.
The Iraqi government, which has Kurds in senior posts, says Turkey must stay out of Iraq.
/Sarcasm
Yup,true..
It is scientifaclly proved that when human beings born in a given region they might become more open to brainwashing..
/Endsarcasm
Your Mooslim Turkeyphile Kool aid mush means nothing...and never will.
Can you even make a post which doesn't contain swearing, personal or racial attacks..
And which in fact contains some logic and sense in it?
You get what you actually deserve and don't make me say what you really are.
Go back to your Osama loving comrades in that awful hell of Mooslems.
I really pity you.
/endofdiscussion
Mooslem Turks deserve no pity...unless they come clean.
Question is can a Mooslem realize the power and redemption of Jesus the Lord? If so, there is hope.
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