Turkish Air Force Strikes Targets Inside Iraq

[soulcore]

Source: http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/10/27/turkish-air-force-strikes-targets-inside-iraq/

MSNBC reported earlier today that Turkey’s Prime Minister says their Air Forces have hit targets in the Kurdish region of northern Iraq.

Read more: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21487389/

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It's time for more conflagration!

[HereSince1628]

1. Not as if anyone didn't forsee the destabilizing effects of ethnic/nationalist

groups within Iraq on neighboring countries.

And so the unraveling of stability in the region spreads.

[NoAmericanTaliban]

2. Turkey should invade & the US should help them fight these terrorist

These Kurds are on the terror list and I cannot believe we are doing nothing to help fight them. When Israel was being attacked by terrorist we let them invade Lebanon. When we were attacked we invaded Afghanistan and Iraq. Can you imagine the outrage if a terra group crossed our borders and killed our troops.

I'm so confused. Why aren't we fighting these terrorist and helping our allie Turkey. The neo-con hypocrisy knows no bounds. They had a good skit about this on the Daily Show the other day.

[dickbearton]

4. Boy, are you right, you are so confused...

First of all, you are on the wrong forum, put that post on
FreeRepublic. Your confusion will be right at home there.

[Orrin_73]

5. He is on the right forum

I think you're on the wrong forum.

[Canuckistanian]

6. Boy, you have one-sided view of things

So the poor Turks are being "terrorized" by the Kurds?

I suggest you read a little history before you condemn one group or another as "terrorists"

[Eugene]

3. Turkey threatens incursion after Iraq talks fail

Source: Reuters

Turkey threatens incursion after Iraq talks fail
27 Oct 2007 16:57:29 GMT
Source: Reuters

(Adds foreign minister, edits)

By Thomas Grove

SIRNAK, Turkey, Oct 27 (Reuters) - Turkish Prime Minister
Tayyip Erdogan threatened on Saturday to order an incursion
into northern Iraq against Kurdish guerrillas after the failure
of talks with Iraq aimed at averting a cross-border raid.

"The moment an operation is needed, we will take that step,"
Erdogan told a large flag-waving crowd in Izmit. "We don't need
to ask anyone's permission."

The talks collapsed late on Friday after Ankara rejected proposals
by Iraqi Defence Minister General Abdel Qader Jassim for tackling
guerrillas based in northern Iraq as insufficient and because they
would not yield results quickly enough.

Turkey has massed up to 100,000 troops, backed by fighter jets,
helicopter gunships, tanks, and mortars, on the border for a
possible offensive against about 3,000 rebels using Iraq as a base
from which to carry out attacks in Turkey.

-snip-

Read more: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L27360011.htm

[ohio2007]

7. no reports of casualities?

He said Turkey's struggles with the PKK go beyond the rebel group's estimated 3,000 to 3,500 members.

"Today, the PKK is a group that receives the most support, logistical aid, weapons and propaganda support from several countries," he said, without naming any countries.



would be nice if a list of countries that support the group were released instead of bombing phantom targets and no assesments of damage to be reported

[amandabeech]

8. Several countries? Armenia one of them, perhaps?

Iraq? U.S.A.? Israel, in an oil deal?

Really, enquiring minds want to know.