From: Ad 

http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?F=2799746&C=america

" The chief of general staff, General Yasar Buyukanit, said he favored
an incursion into northern Iraq to clean up Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK)
bases there, but said the order to do so must come from the government.
“The political authorities must determine whether, once we go in (to
northern Iraq), we act only against the PKK or if something will happen
with Barzani as well,” he said, referring to Massud Barzani, who heads the
Kurdish autonomous region’s government. He was speaking to reporters on the
sidelines of an international military symposium at the War Academy here.
Barzani, who is also the leader of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, has
always strongly opposed any Turkish military action against northern Iraq.
But vocal support for a Turkish incursion there has been growing since PKK
activities in the southerast increased with the spring thaw and a suicide
bomb attack in Ankara, blamed on the PKK, killed six and wounded 121 last
week in Ankara.
“I already told Turkey and the world (at a press conference) on April 12
that we need this,” Buyukanit said, referring to an eventual crossborder
operation.
“As military men, we are ready, but all military men need orders,” he said
before adding, in an apparent swipe at the government: “I can’t send them a
written request, can I? What do they expect from me?” On May 23, the day
after the bomb attack in Ankara, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said
his government would support the army if it sought to strike at PKK bases
in northern Iraq."


Ah joy....just what Iraq needs....a Turkish "incursion".....I'll bet our
  Geo S is chuffed with comments such as these.

Adam

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