Turkey shells area along border as tens of thousands of troops gather

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/F9363813-7E69-47C6-A45F-C2CC38BF37C6.htm


Turkey reportedly shelled areas along the border on Sunday as the tens of thousands of troops gathered in the area.


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Al Jazeera's correspondent
visits a Kurdish village on the Iraq-Turkey border

"The shelling began on Saturday night around 10pm <1900 GMT>," an Iraqi officer told the AFP news agency, speaking on condition of anonymity.

"It carried on sporadically," he said, adding that the shells had struck empty areas without causing any casualties.

Residents of Dashta Takh near the Turkish border told Al Jazeera of a low intensity, but regular shelling campaign around their village.

"There is often shelling, sometimes we can't sleep at night," one resident said. "Whenever they want, they hit."

Tough resistance

Murat Karayilan, head of the armed wing of the PKK, told the Associated Press on Saturday that Turkey could expect to meet tough resistance if its forces crossed the border.

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Al Jazeera's correspondent reports on the quandary of Turkey's Kurdish minority

"Iraq's Kurds will not support the Turkish army," he said.

"If Turkey starts its attack, we will swing the Turkish public opinion by political, civil and military struggle."


http://newsblaze.com/story/20071014122428payn.nb/newsblaze/OPINIONS/Opinions.html

before the * cabal attacked Iraq...

and in chaos they can steal

diplomatic talks immediately. Tom Lantos has his F-ing priorities mixed up.

US military officials predict disastrous consequences if Turkey strikes at northern Iraq and serious repercussions for the safety of US troops if Turkey reduces the supply lines it permits.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/us-warns-of-disaster-if-turks-attack-iraq/2007/10/14/1192300600727.html




The confluence of two seemingly unrelated events could not have come at a worse time. The bodies of 13 Turkish soldiers killed on October 7 in one of the deadliest attacks by Kurdish separatists had barely been buried amid emotional media coverage when the House Foreign Affairs Committee in Washington approved a resolution to label as genocide the mass killings of Armenians during the final decades of the Ottoman Empire.

"This is not only about a resolution," said Egemen Bagis, a member of the Turkish parliament and a foreign policy adviser to Erdogan. "We're fed up with the PKK - it is a clear and present danger for us. This insult over the genocide claims is the last straw."

Crickets.
Joe was right- you were wrong.
BHN

:banghead:

The neocons rage, "NOW, OUR CHILDREN WILL FINALLY SING,...WORLD WAR IS GOING TO HAPPEN IN SPITE OF THOSE ASININE DEMOCRATS!!!" yippee

You might say, I am pretty much resigned to what those fuckers will get away with. Ask me why. On second thought, DON'T!

Source: The Herald/ UK

US explores alternative airbase after row with Turkey
IAN BRUCE, Defence Correspondent

October 15 2007

The Pentagon is looking for emergency alternatives to its key Incirlik airbase in Turkey in case a diplomatic row with Ankara cuts off 70% of its airborne supplies to US forces in Iraq.

The possible loss of Turkish facilities follows US congressional criticism over alleged "genocide" against Armenian civilians by Ottoman Turkish forces during the First World War.

The dispute now threatens to turn into an international logistics and intelligence-gathering crisis if Ankara decides to impose sanctions over the use of its military facilities in retaliation.
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The Turkish authorities allow the US to use the giant Incirlik base as a main supply hub for Iraq. Unmanned aerial drone spy missions over Iraq and Iran are flown from there. They also allow overflights of Turkish territory by US transport aircraft, allowing them to reduce the risk of being shot down by insurgents inside Iraq's troubled northern provinces.

Read more: http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/news/display.var.1759142.0.0.php