PKK rebels say heading into Turkey from Iraq

[sabra]

Source: Reuters

TUNCELI, Turkey (Reuters) - Kurdish separatist rebels said on Friday they were crossing back into Turkey to target politicians and police after Ankara said it was preparing to attack them in the mountains of northern Iraq.

A statement by the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) could further increase domestic pressure on Ankara to launch a major offensive that Washington fears could destabilize a relatively peaceful area of Iraq and have ramifications through the region.

"The guerrillas are not moving to the south (northern Iraq); on the contrary they are moving to ... places in the north," the PKK said in a statement published on Firat news agency.

The PKK statement said its fighters planned to carry out attacks against Turkey's ruling AK Party and the main opposition CHP unless certain conditions were met as well as the police force. It did not elaborate.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071012/wl_nm/turkey_iraq_dc_24

[MADem]

1. They're gonna fight 'em over there, so they don't have ta fight 'em in Iraqi Kurdistan

They're seeing the Turks, and raising 'em.

Getting interesting over that way.

If there are any Archdukes in the vicinity, urge them to wear a flak jacket....

[Solly Mack]

2. Bagis said this yesterday

"Bagis added that Turkish frustration over the PKK was reaching a boiling point, and that the "only remedy" to the Armenia vote was US cooperation against the Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq."

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/afp/20071011/tpl-us-politics-armenia-turkey-history-10170b4_7.html

[formercia]

3. This is what happens whe you give long-dead politicians a map

and pencil, and let them decide how to divide the Ottoman Empire.

[Solly Mack]

4. and just think of all the backlash coming....

[formercia]

5. I guess Junior didn't take blood feuds into account...

Oh, wait, that's right, he was avenging Poppy for Saddam trying to do him in....

Junior's tribal mentality and he thinks we're his tribe.

What you mean we, White man?

[Solly Mack]

7. I'm fairly certain that I'm not part of his tribe

:)

[formercia]

6. Unfortunately for the Turks

they don't have Dennis Hastert to ramrod the House.

[Flabbergasted]

8. Rebels vow to step up Turkey raids

Source: The Times

October 13, 2007

Rebels vow to step up Turkey raids
Richard Beeston, Diplomatic Editor


Kurdish separatists vowed to step up their attacks on Turkish government targets yesterday, raising fears that Ankara will carry out its threat to launch a punitive strike against rebel bases in northern Iraq.

In a statement distributed in southern Turkey, the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK), said that, far from halting their recent raids, they planned to escalate operations and specifically target Turkey’s ruling AK Party and the opposition CHP.

Bahoz Erdal, a PKK commander whose forces have 3,000 fighters in camps on the Iraqi side of the border with Turkey, accused the Turks of using “state terror” against the Kurds.

“The AKP Government is a war government,” he said. His statement coincided with the latest PKK ambush, which killed one Turkish soldier and wounded two.


Read more: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article2648451.ece

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So the PKK WANTS Turkey to invade? Where the Hell is Rice? She sould get her ass over there.

[bronxiteforever]

9. Rice is getting her ass kicked by Putty-Put in Russia

[TankLV]

10. Oh no! What are we going to do for Thanksgiving!!!