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Iraq
Turkish planes bomb Kurds in northern Iraq
2007-12-23
Turkish warplanes bombed Kurdish guerrilla targets in northern Iraq on Saturday in a new cross-border offensive, the General Staff said.

The Turkish military said the offensive against outlawed separatist Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) guerrillas inside Turkey and across the border in northern Iraq would continue. "Turkish Air Force warplanes struck important targets of the PKK/KONGRA-GEL terror group in northern Iraq ... between the hours of 14:25-15:00 (1225-1300 GMT)," the General Staff statement, posted on its website, said. "The PKK will understand through experience that northern Iraq is not a safe place and they will understand once again that they have no chance against the Turkish military," it said.

Turkey says it has the right to use force to combat separatist rebels who shelter in the semi-autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq and mount attacks in which they have killed dozens of Turkish troops in recent months. But the United States and the European Union fear a further escalation in tension could destabilise the region.
Posted by:Fred

#2  It takes willful blindness on the part not to see what the Turks have in mind. All people who are in positions of responsibility who are watching the Turks mass on the border with 100,000 troops and stick their heads in the sand and say, ooohh, but they are just going after the PKK, will have their heads handed to them on a public platter when the obvious and inevitable happens and they it becomes painfully obvious that they were too stupid or weak to have forseen it.
Posted by: Whomong Guelph4611   2007-12-23 11:57  

#1  United States and the European Union fear a further escalation in tension could destabilise the region

Kurds get screwed again.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2007-12-23 00:11  

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