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| Turkish troops enter Iraq |
| 2003-03-21 |
| Turkish troops have crossed the border into northern Iraq, according to reports on Turkish television station IHA. At least 1,500 troops moved in, as a precursor to a larger deployment. Earlier, Turkey opened its airspace to US military aircraft as war rages in neighbouring Iraq. The country said it wanted to control the flow of refugees to prevent "terrorist activity" and does not have territorial ambitions. But Washington has been strongly opposed to Turkey's troops moving into Iraq, though the US has not yet given an official reaction. Turkish Defence Minister Vecdi Gonul earlier told reporters that the deployment of troops is necessary to rout out Kurdish guerrillas and prevent an influx of refugees. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #3 Most of the heavy divisions are in the south,it would be a long,hard,bloody campaign but they could just keep rolling north. |
| Posted by: raptor 2003-03-22 09:19:11 |
| #2 My fear is that they have joined hands with the crazy mullahs (the AKP is an islamofascist movement that admires Khomeini and Khamenei)and that they will provoke war with the US when the US troops are spread out all over Iraq (200.000 soldiers isn't much in a country the size of Iraq). I'm afraid the US ran in a trap. |
| Posted by: Peter 2003-03-22 03:31:38 |
| #1 If they hang around the border, it might be too much trouble for us right now. If they head for Kirkuk and Mosul, that's a horse of a different colour. |
| Posted by: Chuck 2003-03-21 19:18:25 |