A senior US official has accused Turkey of pulling a bait-and-switch by using a recent anti-Islamic State agreement with the US as a “hook” to attack the Kurdish PKK in northern Iraq, The Wall Street Journal reports.
“It’s clear that ISIL was a hook,” the senior military official told The Journal, referring to the Islamic State (aka ISIS, ISIL, or Daesh).
“Turkey wanted to move against the PKK, but it needed a hook.”
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/us-and-turkey-anti-isis-campaign-and-pkk-2015-8#ixzz3ihw292RB
But was it a wink and a nod?
Reminiscent of when we allowed the Iraqis the use of airspace to evacuate their personnel from Kuwait at the end of SWA I. Instead they used it to gas the Kurds.