From: Adam <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near
the bridge">

My Parents got back from anatalya last Sunday.

They were on a sailing boat doing diving & "cruising the eastern
levant" so they were at less risk.

What can I say....Storm birds. I was joking to them that they should have
informed the turkish authorities of their arrival.

Adam

Rich Gauszka wrote:
> Looks like those wild and crazy Kurds are trying to provoke a Turkish
> invasion of Northern Iraq. What wooul Bush do?
>
> http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article1222358.ece
>
> A Kurdish separatist splinter group claimed responsibility for four bomb
> blasts in the Turkish resort town of Marmaris and in Istanbul on Sunday,
> which injured 27 people including 10 British holidaymakers.
>
> In a statement on their website, the Kurdistan Freedom Falcons (TAK) said:
> "We warned tourists before ... Turkey is not safe. Tourists should not come
> to Turkey. We will not be held responsible for the consequences if
they do."
>
> Turkish police announced late last night that they had arrested a suspected
> member of a Kurdish guerrilla group planning a new attack. According to the
> state news agency Anatolian, police said the suspect was planning an attack
> on the city of Izmir and that explosives had been seized in the arrest.
> Other people were detained for helping the suspect who was apparently from
> the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), not the TAK.
>
> The TAK are a splinter group who first emerged last year in a similar attack
> on an Aegean resort. They are part of the Kurdish Separatist Movement but
> not officially linked to the PKK, which has waged an armed campaign for
> Kurdish self-rule in south-east Turkey since 1978. Since the arrest of their
> leader Abdullah Ocalan in 1999, the PKK said it would like to broker a peace
> deal with Turkey, but Ankara has said it will not negotiate with terrorists.
>
> Turkey has also been incensed by the Iraqi government's refusal to tackle
> those Kurdish guerrillas operating out of the north of the country. During a
> visit to Turkey last month the Iraqi foreign minister Hoshyar Zebari avoided
> making any concrete commitments to taking on Kurdish fighters attacking
> Turkey out of bases in Iraq.
>
>

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