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  • Turkey approves Invasion into Iraq



    I'll have to check with Naomi Wolf about how many days past this it should be til they invade Iraq. Here's the text:

    Turkey approves Iraq incursion plan
    Wed Oct 17, 2007 3:01pm EDT
    By Hidir Goktas and Gareth Jones

    ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey's parliament resoundingly approved a motion on Wednesday allowing troops to cross into northern Iraq to hunt down Kurdish rebels there, but its Western allies and Baghdad urged Ankara to refrain from military action.

    As parliament voted in Ankara by 507 votes to 19 in favor of the motion, U.S. President George W. Bush said it would not be in NATO member Turkey's interests to send troops into Iraq.

    Washington fears a Turkish incursion could destabilize the most peaceful part of Iraq and possibly the wider region by encouraging others such as arch-foe Iran to intervene.

    Iraq's government said on Wednesday it would send a team to Ankara for further talks to find a peaceful solution to the crisis. NATO and the European Union also urged restraint.

    Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan has played down expectations of any imminent attack but the parliamentary vote gives NATO's second biggest army the legal basis to cross the mountainous border as and when it sees fit.

    "What matters is what parliament has said," Erdogan told reporters as he left the assembly after the vote.

    Erdogan is under heavy public pressure to act after a series of deadly attacks on its troops by the rebels of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), who use northern Iraq as a base.

    Ankara's stance has helped propel global oil prices to record highs above $88 a barrel, though they eased on Wednesday.

    Fearing possible rebel sabotage, Turkey has beefed up security for a major oil pipeline carrying Caspian crude from the Azeri capital Baku via Georgia to the Turkish Mediterranean port of Ceyhan, a senior energy ministry source told Reuters.

    Deputy Prime Minister Cemil Cicek told parliament any army incursion would target only the estimated 3,000 PKK rebels in Iraq. He said Turkey would also continue to use economic and diplomatic measures in its fight against terrorism.

    KURDISH SEPARATISM

    Opposition parties attacked U.S. policies in the region. They repeated Turkish fears the policies would lead to the creation of an independent Kurdish state which Ankara says could reignite separatism among its own ethnic Kurdish population.

    Only the small pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) spoke against the motion, arguing that military action would worsen the economic plight of Turkey's mainly Kurdish southeast.

    Bush repeated U.S. concerns. "They (Turkey) have had troops stationed there for quite a while. We don't think it's in their interest to send more troops in," he told a news conference.

    Turkey keeps a relatively small contingent of troops at several bases in northern Iraq dating back to the time of previous offensives in the 1990s. Those offensives failed to eliminate the PKK guerrillas.

    The European Commission urged Turkey, a candidate for EU membership, to avoid taking unilateral action in Iraq.

    "It is crucial that Turkey continues to tackle this problem through cooperation between the relevant authorities," Commission spokeswoman Krisztina Nagy said in Brussels.

    Analysts say that despite its tough rhetoric Turkey may limit itself to aerial bombardment of rebel targets and small forays across the border this time, and avoid a major incursion.

    Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki telephoned Erdogan to reiterate his commitment to combating the PKK.

    Iraq's president, who is a Kurd, condemned the PKK tactics.

    "We consider the activities of the PKK against the interests of the Kurdish people and against the interests of Turkey. We have asked the PKK to stop fighting and end military activity," President Jalal Talabani said during a visit to Paris.

    Ankara blames the PKK, considered a terrorist organization by the United States and the European Union, for the deaths of more than 30,000 people since the group launched its armed struggle for an ethnic homeland in southeast Turkey in 1984.

    (Additional reporting by Orhan Coskun and Evren Mesci in Ankara, Mark John in Brussels and Baghdad bureau)

  • #2
    Turkey is and has been in Iraq unoficially for sometime now the latest BS is a bluff to scare away and/or to give excuse to wimpy congressman to switch sides.
    bush/livingston/gephard/erdogan gives an excuse and a reward to those unscrupoulus congressman by way of wagging the Turkish dog.
    "All truth passes through three stages:
    First, it is ridiculed;
    Second, it is violently opposed; and
    Third, it is accepted as self-evident."

    Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)

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    • #3
      Sounds like the Turkish decision to possibly invade Iraq was a far more democratic process than the American and the British decisions to actually invade Iraq.
      Plenipotentiary meow!

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      • #4
        Please!
        Compare figs with figs and grapefruit with grapefruit.
        "All truth passes through three stages:
        First, it is ridiculed;
        Second, it is violently opposed; and
        Third, it is accepted as self-evident."

        Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)

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        • #5
          Originally posted by Gavur View Post
          Please!
          Compare figs with figs and grapefruit with grapefruit.
          Yes, that's true. PPK fighters are based in northern Iraq, and they are crossing over and killing people in Turkey. And political and paramilitary groups in northern Iraq do have the aim of annexing parts of Turkish territory to incorporate them inside their greater Kurdistan. Whereas, nobody from Iraq ever killed anyone in Britain and America, and Iraq never had any plans to invade or annex parts of those countries.
          Plenipotentiary meow!

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          • #6
            And the Turks have designs in Nothern Iraq,they just need an excuse and most of all permission from us!Your beyond help if you don't see that also!
            "All truth passes through three stages:
            First, it is ridiculed;
            Second, it is violently opposed; and
            Third, it is accepted as self-evident."

            Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)

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            • #7
              Originally posted by Gavur View Post
              And the Turks have designs in Nothern Iraq,they just need an excuse and most of all permission from us!Your beyond help if you don't see that also!
              And America had designs on all of Iraq, they just needed to invent an excuse, and ignored needing permission from the United Nations. You are beyond help if you still don't see that.
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              • #8
                Again according to the world of Turkophiles 2wrongs=right o
                "All truth passes through three stages:
                First, it is ridiculed;
                Second, it is violently opposed; and
                Third, it is accepted as self-evident."

                Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)

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                • #9
                  They sure didn't wait long...



                  Less than a week after the vote was made, the Turkish prime minister has mobilized those powers he claimed he hoped he wouldn't need to use.

                  Is there anyone who believes these men when they claim to not necessarily want to use powers that they're asking for? Bush did the same thing... and while George Lucas' analogy with Emperor Palpatine may have been accidental, it's certainly poignant proof... and absolute power DOES corrupt absolutely.

                  I hear excuses being levied, about how the Kurds have hit in Turkey, etc., but what else are an oppressed people to do? Just because they're fighting back does not mean they were the ones to initiate the hostilities. We, of all people, should know that!

                  When they were doing it to our people in 1915, no one intervened. Can we say and do nothing while they do it again, to the Kurds this time?

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