Someone tell the Turks that the Persians are the next country over.
Reuters - TURKISH TROOPS MOVE 2-3 KM INTO IRAQ, LIGHTLY ARMED, NO CLASHES
It looks like Turkey will get served this Christmas.
OK... Now I’m sufficiently confused. Are these Kurds that are being targeted hostiles? Are they siding with Al Qaeda — hence the term separatists. Or are these the same Kurds that simply wished to develop their own country? Have these people proved to have been dangerous, and/or perpetrating attacks in Turkey?
Perhaps someone would be so kind as to fill me in as I’m obviously not as educated on this particular issue as I thought... Thanks in advance for any links, etc... so that I can increase my understanding.
Backing up US troops or joining the “insurgency” invasion?
The bombing of Turkey starts at 0700 hours...
Someone tell the Turks that the Persians are the next country over.
Done without any international process... from the same guys who tried to stop us and said us going there was not legal
how many times was this done before AP decided it was news worthy
Before 2003, Saddam used the Ansar al-Islam jihadists and al Qaeda encamped in northern Iraq to keep the PKK in line. Now they’re all dead and the PKK has had a free reign to kill Turks. This was a well-known risk during the run-up to the invasion.
Our little “friends” the Turks are trying to stop any stabilization in Iraq because they want to continue to surpress their own Kurdish minority and take over Kurdistan - or at least part of it.
Think of the drug smugglers as the Marxist PKK terrorists -- including a time in the future when 20,000 or so Americans have been killed by the drug smugglers trying to establish control over portions of the U.S. The 20,000 is the approximate number of Turkish civilian casualties caused by the PKK since the 1980s. The total number of deaths is greater owing to Turkish counterattacks.
What would we do? If you think what Turkey did is wrong then surely you'll argue that we should do nothing except let more Americans be murdered by the drug smugglers.
Maybe they just wanted to get some steaks at the local Sizzler.
Does Turkey have any problem with the Kurds in the eastern part of Turkey. Is there any armed resisitance to the Turk government?
What crock. Who are all the lefties posting this garbage? America already told the Turks we would help them locate the PPK, Iraq already agreed to look the other way.
Despite what you read in the media, this is a waste of band width.
300 turks sitting on a dozen mountain tops looking out for invading PPK guerillas. BIG DEAL!
check this out-
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119794106110035599.html?mod=opinion_main_commentaries
Turkey’s Terror Problem Is Ours
By Michael Rubin
Wall Street Journal
December 18, 2007
Pg. 21
It’s been nearly two months since the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) sparked an international crisis with a major attack inside Turkey, and more than six weeks since President Bush promised Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan that Washington would aid Turkey’s fight against terrorism. Heady talk of intelligence sharing and cooperation followed and, indeed, may have been a factor in this weekend’s Turkish air strikes on PKK targets in Iraqi Kurdistan.
Yet at the same time the Bush administration — more precisely its increasingly assertive State Department — has embraced an ill-advised diplomatic strategy toward the PKK that will likely backfire on our long-standing NATO ally, and could serve to undermine what is left of President Bush’s “global war on terrorism.”
With 100,000 Turkish troops amassed alongside the Iraqi frontier, it is understandable that U.S. diplomats want to avert a military crisis. But, rather than take a zero-tolerance policy toward terrorism, the State Department is counseling Turkey to offer political concessions. On Dec. 13, for example, State Department Coordinator for Counterterrorism Dell Dailey said, “We have not looked at a military solution as the solution to the PKK. Our preference is a political solution,” both inside Iraqi Kurdistan and inside Turkey.
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At some point in the near future the Muslim parastate of Turkey will disintegrate...