Turkeys impending invasion of Iraq what the MSM doesn't say

[azurnoir]

Guess what it will not be the first time

Remember in the run-up to our invasion of Iraq all the hand wringing in the media about how Saddam had gassed the Kurds?

during the 1991 Gulf War, Turkey reluctantly supported the anti-Iraq coalition, including Operation Provide Comfort, to shield Iraqi Kurds from Saddam Hussein's revenge, while the PKK intensified its guerrilla war, operating from bases in Iraq and Syria. In 1993, with the Gulf War over, Turkey sent 50,000 troops into Iraq, in a massive assault against Kurdish rebels, no longer protected. In 1994, dissenting political parties were banned, elected Kurdish representatives were accused of treason and imprisoned, while others fled into exile. Turkish forces have launched air and ground attacks, ravaging as many as 3000 Kurdish villages, forcibly relocating over 3 million villagers and defoliating forests in its scorched earth campaigns to destroy the PKK. The death toll is approaching 40,000.

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The PKK has offered to drop its demands to establish an independent, sovereign Kurdish state and proposed a semi-automonous Democratic Federal Republic that, together with the Turkish Republic, would form a Turkish Federation, similar to that in Belgium (not unlike like American States).

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much more at link

http://www.flashpoints.info/countries-conflicts/Turkey-Kurdistan-web/Turkey-Kurdistan_briefing.html

[mojowork_n]

1. Turks are going to invade Northern Iraq?

But that's where our only 'friends' and 'successes' have come, with the Kurds.

If the United States allowed that to happen, it would be the start of an all-out, regional free-for-all.

Your weblink description "Turkey has invaded..." is from the immediate post-Gulf War period, early to mid 90's.

Have you seen any other reports of border tension between the de facto little N. Iraqi Kurdish government, and the Turks?

[LionInWinter]

2. Dude, where have you been?

Turkish MPs back attacks in Iraq

Turkey's parliament has given permission for the government to launch military operations into Iraq in pursuit of Kurdish rebels.
The vote was taken in defiance of pressure from the US and Iraq, which have called on Turkey for restraint.



http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7049348.stm

[azurnoir]

3. Yes they are "preparing" to do so

There have been a couple of DU threads about it in fact. What is disturbing is much people even here believe the MSM /government line about PKK "terrorists" and how our "friends" the Turks may have to invade Iraq to defend themselves against them without looking any further.