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The new invasion of Iraq

Up to 10,000 Turkish troops launch an incursion which threatens to destabilise the country's only peaceful region.

Apparently, the attempt is aimed at pressuring the US to choke the PKK. Meanwhile, Kurdish "rebels" have vowed to take the fight to Turkish cities.

Blimey! A sure fire twin formula to further destabilise the region.

by The3rdColumn on Sat Feb 23rd, 2008 at 05:38:36 PM EST
Nah I think Turkey gave up on pressurising the US to deal with the PKK months back, since then it's (successfully) been focussing its efforts on pressurising the US to let IT deal with the PKK itself (with loss of Incirlik as implicit tug-of-war stick, compromise on limited-scale-of-incursions as carrot). But that puts the US between a rock and a hard place - either give the Turks the green light and lose the Kurds, or lose the Turks by protecting the Kurds (who protect the Turk-terrorising PKK and its oh-so-US-convenient Iran-terrorising branch the PJAK).  So far, US fear of losing key military-base provider Turkey seems to have won the day?

"Ignoring moralities is always undesirable, but doing so systematically is really worrisome." Mohammed Khatami
by eternalcityblues (parvati_roma aaaat libero.it) on Sat Feb 23rd, 2008 at 08:11:34 PM EST
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