Peshmerga Advance Towards Kirkuk (Turkey, Kurds)

ZAMAN ^ | 03-30-03 | editor

[pkpjamestown]

The same Iraqi troops that have displayed such strong resistance to the coalition forces in the south of the country have reportedly shied away from encounters with the Kurdish peshmerga in the north and retreated to their lines around the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk.

The peshmerga are believed to have advanced approximately 25 kilometers and are nearing Kirkuk, after having begun their operation several days ago. In addition, the Kirkuk-Kurdistan Web site claims that forces of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) are currently 20 kilometers outside of Kirkuk.

During negotiations conducted with the United States, Turkey had demanded that peshmerga not be used in potential attacks on Mosul and Kirkuk and that control of the region rest totally with U.S. troops. Turkey has warned that it will intervene in northern Iraq in the event that the Kurdish peshmerga enter Mosul and Kirkuk.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

I beleive the Turks were paid-off by Saddam to hold-up the US 4th Army ID from coming in by the North.

We had offered them between 15 and 30 billion plus other incentives. I don't see how a soon to be deposed dictator could match that. LOL.

[pkpjamestown]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/875588/posts

[a_Turk]

>> So is it any surprise that the Kurds are welcoming American troops with open arms as well as willing volunteers ready to fight the Iraqis?

You call pelting your troops with eggs and rocks "welcoming American troops with open arms?"

Whenever you think you've got it figured out, take extra time to think again..

[McGavin999]

The Turks lost any say in the matter when they decided to refuse to allow our troops to enter into Iraq through Turkey. I've lost all respect for them.

[libertylover]

Turkey lost its say when it refused to allow American troops to open a second front from the north.

I couldn't agree more.

[goody2shooz]

Excuse me, but I saw those videos. The egg throwers were in Turkey and not northern Iraq.

[xm177e2]

(See post 26)

[xm177e2]

I think 30,000 combat-ready soldiers from the PUK would be considered "welcoming... with open arms." The Iraqi Kurds are our friends.

[a_Turk]

>> The egg throwers were in Turkey and not northern Iraq.

Turkish Kurds.

[a_Turk]

>> The Iraqi Kurds are our friends.

Only time will tell.

[nkycincinnatikid]

In France!.... DUH?

[Travis McGee]

The diplomacy here must be intense. I'd post an American battalion across the approaches at a set distance inside Iraq, giving it a buffer, and let it be known that "no hostile force will be allowed to pass."

Let Turkey decide if it wants to go to war with America.

[eleni121]

You are right - Turks have never been our friends- they are reviled everywhere they go. Their allegiance is to their mafia drug pushing parastate.

Game's up! Finally this heroic President Bush is dismantling the Turkophiles in the government Perle and next is Wolfowitz -

[eleni121]

To A TURK: Liar Liar pants on fire---Your lying does not make it here on FreeRepublic Turk!

The eggs and rocks were thrown by Turk Muslims.

[Sir_Ed]

Absloutely...bloody pigs lost any rights whatsoever to have a say in how we conduct this war.

These people cost American LIVES!

Let the Kurds go in, and I say give 'em Kurdistan...they'll be a hell of a lot better allies than the Turks, French or Germans!

Ed

[a_Turk]

>> Liar Liar pants on fire---



See the head gear? Ethnic Turks don't wear that..

[pushforbush]

I don't care about their ethnicity. It happened in Turkey so Turkey is responsible for this incident. Turkish government probably "set up" this spontaneous expression of hatred

[try phecta tom]

I think what Turkey realy wants is the oilfields, and is using the Kurd bs excuse's to invade Northern Iraq. The Turks are not our friends. Watch them

Bingo has been called!!!!

[try phecta tom]

You call pelting your troops with eggs and rocks "welcoming American troops with open arms?"

BS you can't back that up