Turkish PM calls on Iraq to shut Kurd rebel camps

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

Turkish PM calls on Iraq to shut Kurd rebel camps
Fri Oct 19, 2007 9:03am EDT

By Daren Butler

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip
Erdogan called on Baghdad on Friday to shut down camps
run by separatist Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq and to
hand over guerrilla leaders.

His comments came two days after the Ankara parliament,
in defiance of Washington, authorized Turkish troops to
cross the mountainous border into northern Iraq to track
down the rebels, who use the region as a base from which
to attack Turkey.

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Deputy Prime Minister Cemil Cicek was quoted on Friday as
saying Turkey was serious about sending troops into Iraq.
The Pentagon angered Turks after Wednesday's vote by
suggesting Ankara lacked the appetite for military action.

NO GOING BACK

"We have made the decision and we will do what is
necessary. We are not reluctant. There is no going back on
this," Today's Zaman newspaper quoted Cicek as saying in
an interview.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSL1354608620071019

[Javaman]

1. that ain't gonna happen and turkey knows it. iraq can't even close the bathroom door.

This is the stage where turkey tries to look responsible by pursuing "all options" before the start carpet bombing the kurds.

smoke and mirrors.

[ohio2007]

2. Maybe the Turks want the US "redeployed" into the peacefull region ?

We do need to shrink our footprint from the Sunni/Shia quagmire so those types can proove to * they won't civil war on each other as we decrease our presence....

Maybe we should have some troops redeployed . They could use the R-n-R