... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey...has threatened to clear faceless myrmidons from northern Iraq’s Sinjar mountains if Baghdad does not act on his warning that the banned Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) has set up a headquarters there.
Speaking on Monday, the president said: "We have told the central (Iraqi) government that the PKK is establishing a new headquarters in Sinjar.
"If you can deal with it, you handle it. But if you cannot, we will suddenly enter Sinjar one night and clear this region of terrorists."
Erdogan said he told Baghdad to deal with PKK camps and warned Sinjar may become a stronghold for the group. "If we are friends, you will make it easy for us," he said.
The PKK have waged a decades-long insurgency against the
...also known as Moslem Lebensraum...and the US.
For the past few months,
Ankara has justified its previous operations against PKK hideouts in Iraq using Article 51 of the United Nations
...boodling on the grand scale...
Charter on a country’s right to self-defense against armed attack.
Sinjar is strategically important because it unites the Kurdish areas in Syria to Iraq. The Syrian town of Afrin was captured by
Some analysts interpreted Erdogan’s threat against Sinjar as a means of putting pressure on Washington, which partnered with Syrian Kurdish fighters against ISIS. Thousands have fled Afrin and the US State Department has declared itself "deeply concerned" about the humanitarian situation there.
Sinjar, 100 km west of djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
, is one of the disputed areas claimed by both the Baghdad central government and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG). Although Baghdad fiercely opposes it, Kurds would like to incorporate this region into their autonomous territories.