15,000 Turks in 'limited operation'; Will not occupy N. Iraq - Kurds are screwed

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http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/WTARC/2007/me_turkey_06_07.asp

ANKARA — After nearly two years of threats, Turkey has invaded Iraq.

Officials said thousands of Turkish Army troops moved into northern Iraq on Wednesday in an operation against the Kurdish insurgency. They said the troops, in the largest incursion since 1997, were attacking suspected bases of the Kurdish Workers Party in the autonomous Iraqi region of Kurdistan.

"This is a limited operation and not an invasion," an official said. "There will not be a Turkish presence in northern Iraq."

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1. They'll just massacre the Kurds and when the last Kurdish man, woman and child

...are dead, they'll leave.

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2. It appears the Kurds never learn

Must not be the brightest of folks.

Don

[WilliamPitt]

3. This got debunked yesterday

The original source for the invasion report was DEBKA.

Turkey and Kurdistan: Behind the Non-Invasion
http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/003370.php

From Reuters:

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L06930995.htm

Jabar Yawir, deputy minister for Peshmerga Affairs in Kurdistan, said: "This afternoon 10 Turkish helicopters landed in a village in Mazouri, which is ... 3 km (2 miles) inside the Iraqi border. They landed with around 150 Turkish special forces."

"After two hours they left and there were no confrontations with the PKK," he told Reuters. He said the village was in a PKK-controlled area.

In Baghdad, Iraq's Foreign Minister Hoshiyar Zebari said there was no evidence of a military incursion.

Turkey's Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul told reporters: "There is no incursion into any other country at the moment."

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5. Turkey has had soldiers INSIDE of Iraq since before we invaded

Debunked indeed.

Don

[WilliamPitt]

6. Link?

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7. Turkey takes US to task over arrests in Iraq

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200307/s895947.htm

The United States is facing mounting problems in Iraq, as Turkey reacts with fury to the detention of its soldiers by US forces.

A US military official has confirmed that US forces in northern Iraq have detained several soldiers they believed to be Turkish.

Asked about accusations from Ankara that US troops had seized Turkish special forces, the official said: "There was a raid. The US military is still trying to determine their ethnicity but they are probably Turkish."

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is to hold telephone talks today local time with US Vice President Dick Cheney about the soldiers detained in northern Iraq, a Turkish government spokesman said.

The Turkish prime minister held a crisis meeting of military and government officials last night in Ankara amid angry protests over the detention of the soldiers.

But there was much uncertainty over how many Turkish troops were involved and why they were detained.

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4. Sounds like Turkey is only probing Iraq's northern frontier to find soft points and hard points.

Then, they recalibrate their plans and do it again.