"Turkey Warned Not to Intervene in Iraq"

[TexasLawyer]

From Saudi paper--Arab News. Here comes a new war. With Turkey a NATO member, this should be "interesting".

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Turkey Warned Not to Intervene in Iraq
Reuters

ANKARA, 5 February 2005 — A leading Iraqi Kurd told Turkey it had no right to meddle in Iraq’s affairs and said any military intervention by Ankara aimed at stalling the creation of a Kurdish state would end in “disaster”.

Turkey has expressed alarm at what it sees as a drive by the Kurds of northern Iraq to cement their autonomy and possibly to seek full independence from Baghdad. Ankara fears such moves could reignite separatism among the Kurds of southeast Turkey. Turkey is especially concerned that the Kurds may wrest control of the oil-rich city of Kirkuk at the expense of local Arabs and Turkish-speaking Turkmen. It has said it reserves the right to take unspecified action to protect its interests.

“Turkey should not intervene in our domestic affairs. The result of such an intervention would be a disaster for all parties,” Masoud Barzani, head of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, told CNN Turk in an interview late on Thursday. Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan and other senior officials have stepped up their criticism of the Kurds since last Sunday’s historic elections in Iraq, saying Ankara could not stand idly by if Kirkuk fell into Kurdish hands.

Erdogan has stopped short of saying Turkey would send troops into northern Iraq, a highly risky move which could pit them against the occupying forces of Ankara’s NATO ally the United States, but Turkish media say all options are under review.

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[HysteryDiagnosis]

1. Kurds may wrest control of the oil-rich city of Kirkuk

Isn't it nice when the real reason for the war on terrah rears its ugly head?? How many Afghans came to the U.S. and did damage to her, how many Iraqis flew the planes into the towers?? And so it goes.

[TomClash]

2. Not the best military in the world

but they do have about ten tank divisions

[Igel]

5. Tanks. Mountains. 'Nuff said. n/t

[DoYouEverWonder]

3. More war and chaos in the Middle East

The PNAC are celebrating tonight.

[murray hill farm]

4. As condi rice..goes about her tour...

like a prudish school marme...with a big stick in her hand...slapping the palms of of every country she visits..now its Turkey and Russia getting their ear full of their shortcomings..and on and on it goes. We wont need to wait for revolution in our own country...the world is about to do it for us.

[TomClash]

7. The Rice a Roni Tour

Not a San Francisco treat.

[murray hill farm]

8. hahahaha

pretty funny!

[Wilber_Stool]

6. What really surprises me about

the discussion about the Kurdish region, is that nobody ever mentions the next most important natural resource, water. That was the reason for the battle that got the Kurds gassed.
Here is an excellent article (with video) with Steven Pelletiere, CIA analyst.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2098.htm

[Paula Sims]

9. OK, I need more coffee ---

Keep in mind that I just got back from a cooking store and purchased a toaster oven, so when I read "Turkey Warned Not to Intervene in Iraq", for a moment I imagined one of the "pardoned" Thanksgiving Day turkeys being scolded by Monkeyboy and Pickles.

OK, I'll go crawl under my rock again.

:eyes: :eyes:



Paula

[montana_hazeleyes]

10. lol

:D

[IndianaGreen]

11. The Kurds have become intoxicated with their new-found power

and they have made many new enemies in the process. Neither Turkey, not Iraq's Shias, will allow an independent Kurdish state. Any such attempt will be smashed by military force.

The United States will not intervene on the side of the Kurds, either against NATO ally Turkey, or the new Shia government in Baghdad.

The Kurds will taste betrayal once more from America, as they did at the end of the Gulf War when the US permitted Saddam to slaughter them, and as they did when the US let the Shah of Iran murder them by the thousands in the 1960s.