The US chooses the time and place to humiliate the Turks for recent past barbarity. The codemnation was obviously timed to bring pressure against Turkey in anticipation of their engaging in military action against the Kurds. Nothing happens by accident. Lantos gets one well placed call from State and it’s on.
By Kurds do you mean the PKK, Kurdish Marxist workers party?
or, the Kurdish Region of Iraq beyond the border is about to be invaded? That would really be dumb. Turkey has issues there but now it's the PKK.
Gen. (Ret.) Joseph Ralston, Special Envoy For Countering the PKK Interview
We were suppose to be cooperating but.. Turkey will have to do it on Her own to stop the terrorist attacks in southeastern Turkey. Ankara has been talking to Baghdad about it.
I notice that General Ralston just resigned -- having served with virtually no movement from the Kurdish Regional government, Baghdad, and Washington in solving the PKK problem -- and the Turkish general he'd been working with retired leaving his contacts in Ankara wanting.
Turkey's gone after the PKK along the border in the past. No one should be surprised to see it happen. The Kurdish Regional government does not control that strip of land, the PKK does.