Turkey Takes Further Step Toward Iraq Operation

by Chris Jones on October 15, 2007 · 1 comment

The Turkish government will seek parliamentary approval for a military operation against Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq, a government spokesman said Monday, taking action on one of two major issues straining relations with Washington. The government will immediately send a motion to the Parliament in hopes of a vote later this week, government spokesman Cemil Cicek said. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government twice acquired similar authorizations from the Parliament in 2003, but did not act on them.

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    • Mehmet Yilmaz

      Turkey has all the rights for an operation Iraq. Just look at the facts: 35,000 people killed in military campaigns, 17,500 were assassinated between 1984, when the conflict began, and 1998. An additional 1,000 people were reportedly assassinated in the first nine months of 1999.

      Just one week ago 15 un-armed soldiers got assasinated in the south-eastern part of Turkey. So why should Turkey stop from bombing PKK camps in northern Iraq for the interest of the civilians?

      U.S. invaded Iraq to destroy and find weapons of mass destruction. Thankfully a dictators rule has ended but what at the end of the day 55,000 people have died because of the civil war including civilians and U.S. soldiers. So if U.S. goes 5,000 miles away from his land for its own interest why shouldn’t the Turkish military have the right to only destroy terrorist camps in the northern Iraqi and Turkish border for its own interest?

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