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2007-10-18 Iraq

Iraqi Kurds call on Turks to seek 'peaceful' means against rebels

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Posted by Fred 2007-10-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 What's so bad about Turkey killing a bunch of terrorists and terrorist-harboring sympathizers? How will it be bad for Iraq and the region for them to be taken out? I must be missing something here because the simple answer that I see seems too good to be true.

Posted by gorb 2007-10-18 02:57|| 2007-10-18 02:57|| Front Page Top

#2 Hehehe, maybe it's only a fight against terrorism when terrorism is against US interests.

Posted by Solomon 2007-10-18 04:11|| 2007-10-18 04:11|| Front Page Top

#3 No, Solomon.

Think about it. That's all.

Posted by twobyfour 2007-10-18 04:34|| http://www.twobyfour.info]">[http://www.twobyfour.info] 2007-10-18 04:34|| Front Page Top

#4 Moderate Abu Mazen, 2x4.

Posted by gromgoru 2007-10-18 04:52|| 2007-10-18 04:52|| Front Page Top

#5 Think about what? Define the US "fight against terror" than.

Posted by Solomon 2007-10-18 05:43|| 2007-10-18 05:43|| Front Page Top

#6 Terrorism is just an extremely vile tactic of war. The real fight is for America to decide whether to bring industrial scale terror to muslims.

Posted by ed 2007-10-18 07:10|| 2007-10-18 07:10|| Front Page Top

#7 If the Kurds want to act like a state, they need to eliminate the terrorists in their midst.

The same reasoning should be applied to Muslims in general.

Posted by SR-71">SR-71 2007-10-18 08:51|| 2007-10-18 08:51|| Front Page Top

#8 It's hard to tell if there's a real problem with PKK in Iraq (they're there, for sure, it's a question of magnitude), or if this is Turkey afraid of an independent or autonomous Kurdistan, or this is judt Turkey looking to annex Kirkuk.

Posted by Mike 2007-10-18 10:34|| 2007-10-18 10:34|| Front Page Top

#9 Aren't there Kurds in northern Syria. Maybe Turkey is afraid of being carved up on the eastern and northern borders, so to speak.

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2007-10-18 14:57|| 2007-10-18 14:57|| Front Page Top

#10 Turkey doesn't want Kurds with oil money.

Posted by 3dc 2007-10-18 16:04|| 2007-10-18 16:04|| Front Page Top

#11 The US should have gotten the PKK to move to Syria and act against the Syrians long ago (acting against the government, not the civilians so they could be real freedom fighters rather than terrorists).

It would have helped ease tensions with the Turks while applying pressure in Syria which can use all the pressure we can apply.

Posted by rjschwarz 2007-10-18 17:04|| 2007-10-18 17:04|| Front Page Top

#12 More Kurds in IRan than Syria. More in Turkey than anyplace else. Modern day Turkey;s boundaries are an accident of the Ottoman empire. The SE 1/3 of Turkey is ethnically Kurdish majority, as are the eastern mountains until you get to the Armenians, Georgians and Azerbaijanis.

Thats hwy the Turks are worried. Were the Kurds to really organize and arm, they coudl rip a large chunk of Turkey away.

Same goes for NW Iran.

Incidentally, those happen to be oil producing areas.

Posted by OldSpook 2007-10-18 20:00|| 2007-10-18 20:00|| Front Page Top

#13 Incidentally, those happen to be oil producing areas.

I still say we help.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2007-10-18 22:53|| 2007-10-18 22:53|| Front Page Top

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