Turkey Signals It's Prepared To Enter Iraq

Bernie Ward is talking about this so i thought to find an article to post.

By Louis Meixler, Associated Press Writer | July 18, 2006

ANKARA, Turkey --Turkish officials signaled Tuesday they are prepared to send the army into northern Iraq if U.S. and Iraqi forces do not take steps to combat Turkish Kurdish guerrillas there -- a move that could put Turkey on a collision course with the United States.

Turkey is facing increasing domestic pressure to act after 15 soldiers, police and guards were killed fighting the guerrillas in southeastern Turkey in the past week.

U.S. officials in Turkey and Washington were in contact with Turkish officials and military commanders to press them to work with Washington to combat the guerrillas and not to act alone, a Western diplomat said, speaking on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the subject.

The Western diplomat said the Turkish military long has had plans for fighting guerrillas in northern Iraq. These range from limited artillery and airstrikes on guerrilla bases, to attacks by commando forces and a broader ground offensive.

http://www.boston.com/news/world/asia/articles/2006/07/18/turkey_signals_its_prepared_to_enter_iraq/

Bush and the idiot PNACers, that's who. Hope they and the weak-kneed accomodationists in Washington are enjoying the spectacle of the world's newest failed state aborning.

I'm surprised we didn't see as much of this sooner....

there to suit me.

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The sky is tall as over a runway,/ The land without marks so you will not arrive/

But pass through, though always skirting landfall./ At dusk, horizons drink down sea and hill,/ The ploughed field swallows the whitewashed gable/ And you're in the dark again.



...on Vinegar Hill, the fatal conclave./ Terraced thousands died, shaking scythes at canon./ The hillside blushed, soaked in our broken wave./ They buried us without shroud or coffin/ And in August the barley grew up out of the grave.

As the missiles fly in the Middle East and our president lunges at Angela Merkel's neck, poetry cleanses and refreshes.

Thank you.

holy toledo!

Just ask Israel.

I would've missed it. And it deserves to be heard.

They entered in small commando bands and by 2004 had nearly several thousand troops ready to attack. This is up near the monutainous border of N.Iraq and Turkey and the Habur Gate region.

Their cover was defense of the ethnic Turkomans in case the sectarian fighting of Anbar and Baghdad-region spilled up north. Of course the real reason was to attack the Kurds if the Kurds ever decided to proclaim N. Iraq and Eastern Turkey = Kurdistan, which Turkey will never allow.

continues to grow by each day.

This is turning into something out of a bad Tom Clancy novel.

Turkey desperately wants to get into the EU. Europe should have some leverage over them.