You wouldn’t know it by reading the US press, but Turkey and the Kurdish Worker’s Party (PKK) are duking it out in the mountains of northern Iraq right now. A Turkish helicopter was shot down yesterday and while Turkey claims they’ve lost 15 soldiers so far, the PKK is saying they’ve killed at least 47 Turks. Turkey has also been destroying civilian infrastructure, something they promised not to do. I guess that’s what the PKK gets for insulting their “Turkishness”.
As Ray pointed out to me, imagine if 10,000 (or however many) Iranian troops crossed the border in southern Iraq to go after “terrorists”? I don’t think anyone would call that an “incursion”.
After all the shit I’ve talked on them, Al Jazeera English is at least covering this.
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February 25th, 2008 at 4:59 pm
NATO nation (Turkey) invades a country already occupied by NATO nations (US, UK, Bulgaria etc)…Weirdest thing that no one cares about. The Iranians should invade their troublesome Iraqi Kurdish border while they have the chance…