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| Iraq |
| Thousands of Kurds rally in Iraq against Turkish parliament's decision |
| 2007-10-19 |
| Thousands of Kurds and supporters took to the streets in northern Iraq Thursday to protest the Turkish parliament's decision to authorize the government to send troops across the border to root out Kurdish rebels. The vote in Turkey on Wednesday removed the last legal obstacle to an offensive, but there was no sign of imminent action as the United States and the Iraqi government urged restraint. Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, a Kurd, said the government was willing to act against the Kurdistan Workers' Party, which is known by its Kurdish acronym PKK, but it doesn't currently have the forces to push the separatist group out of the country. "The Iraqi government is not running away from its responsibilities. It's just a question of time," he told The Associated Press in a telephone interview. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #6 'Fess up, Frank. Yer goin' fer Snark O' The Day™. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-10-19 23:31 |
| #5 back in my day..we wore an onion on our head, which was the fashion at the time.... |
| Posted by: Grandpa Simpson 2007-10-19 23:17 |
| #4 Looks like he's carrying his week's laundry. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2007-10-19 23:08 |
| #3 Remember: one-fifth of US military equipment in support of the 2003 invasion force against Saddam tyranny, sat unusable off the Bosphorus after Turkey's Islamofascist government refused transit through their soil. However, that hasn't stopped President Bush from shilling for Turkey's membership in the EU. |
| Posted by: Hupusoper Turkeyneck3896 2007-10-19 15:11 |
| #2 Now that's a Big Turban... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2007-10-19 08:43 |
| #1 The turks mobilized their forces on the Syrian border years ago and demanded that Syria give up the PKK terrorist leader, abdullah Ocalan. A terrified Syria closed the PKK headquarters and expelled Ocalan. I think the descendants of Suleiman are expecting the same kind of thing from Kurdistan. Expell the PKK and close their headquarters there, or else face the wrath of the Turkish military.
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| Posted by: Galactic Coordinator Shins1195 2007-10-19 08:35 |