From: "Mark" 

There'll be no dust collecting on your "the end is near" sandwich
boards Rich! 


"Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
news:44f381c8$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> 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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