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Turkey reserves right to hit PKK inside Iraq

Of course, if the US can do this, so can Turkey, right?. They're in NATO after all, and Iraq isn't.

Can the last politician to go out the revolving door please turn the lights off?

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Jun 5th, 2007 at 06:53:53 AM EST
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However, I think the "coalition of the witless" has domnstrated that fighting them over there so's you don't fight them over here can lead to occupation and bases and all sorts of stuff you don't want ot admit to your electorate.

Now it seems to me that if turkey do this, they will end up with large chunks of their army in kurdistan for a fair old while. I cannot help thinking this may not be as good an idea as the turks think it might be.

Of course, the turks could stop behaving like exterminationists towards minority populations, (we've done for the armenians, now for the kurds) but they seem to have a bee in their bonnet about stuff like that.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Tue Jun 5th, 2007 at 02:15:01 PM EST
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For Turkey, Iraqi Kurdistan is not "over there", it's "next door". These things can quickly escalate into a regional war as they have done repeatedly in Africa over the past 15 years.

Can the last politician to go out the revolving door please turn the lights off?
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Jun 5th, 2007 at 05:33:40 PM EST
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