From: "Mark" 

If Turkey is smart, they'll embrace the relative calm of Kurdistan, and
encourage their economic growth which will present no threat, real or
imagined, to their own sovereignty. Rather, it will supplement it. 


"Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
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> Unfortunately the facts dispute your claim. The Kurds claim ancestral land
> in Turkey. The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) is the Kurdish resistance in
> Turkey.
>
> http://www.kurdmedia.com/news.asp?id=12972
>
> The Turkish Army and the Turkish Jandarma (paramilitary police) have some
> 260,000 to 265,000 forces already stationed in south-eastern Turkey, ready
> to move in strength into Kurdistan if necessary. Since March 2006, the
> Turkish Army has conducted 53 operations into Iraqi Kurdistan, ostensibly
> against bases and assets of the Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK: Partiya
> Karkerˆn Kurdistan), but in reality much of the activity has been to build
> a network of capabilities based on the Turcomen of the region.
> Significantly, one of the Turkish operations against the PKK was conducted
> with Iranian forces, and the Iranians have themselves conducted eight
> operations against the PKK since March 2006.
>
> The PKK responded with 69 operations against Turkish targets, and during
> the ongoing operations from March 2006 until the end of July 2006, the
> Turkish forces suffered 165 casualties, including 144 soldiers, seven
> junior Army officers, and a lieutenant-colonel. As well, 36 Iranian troops
> were killed during the period, and 43 PKK combatants were known
> casualties.
>
> http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/FA9FB7DC-F815-475E-BBB8-ECDBD8079E90.h
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> At the same time, Ankara has been threatening to send its forces across
> the frontier with northern Iraq to attack rebel Kurdistan Workers Party
> (PKK) bases over the border - and has accused the US of double standards
> in trying to prevent such a move.
>
> "The way they (the US) look at terror there (in Israel) and in Turkey is
> not the same," Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Turkish prime minister, told
> reporters last week.
>
> "They show tolerance towards country A and show a different approach to
> country B. This is unacceptable."
>
> In Ankara, emergency parliamentary meetings have been held and there is
> talk of bringing back emergency rule - one step away from martial law - to
> the southeast, an area of about a quarter of the country and home to many
> of Turkey's estimated 13 million ethnic Kurds.
>
> Talk of getting tough on the PKK is also widely applauded by nationalist
> parties and many ordinary Turks.
>
>
> "Gary Britt"  wrote in message
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>> The Kurds don't want problems with Turkey, they are having an economic
>> boom because they provide a relatively secure and safe political
>> environment for private property owners and investors.  A story on this
>> fact of life for the Kurdish portion of Iraq was aired earlier today on
>> one of the cable network news channels.  Guys from Texas (already
>> millionaires) building apartments and other real estate developments in
>> the Kurdish portion of Iraq.  Huge real estate boom appears to be going
>> on there.  People relocating there from elsewhere in Iraq.
>>
>> Gary
>>
>> "Jim Adams"  wrote in message
>> news:44da90c0{at}w3.nls.net...
>>>> If there is a civil war that spreads outside of the Baghdad area
>>>> perhaps it could spread into Iran and Syria.
>>>
>>> Let's not forget Turkey.  How happy do you think they will be to have a
>>> Kurdish republic on their border?
>>> --
>>> Jim Adams
>>>
>>> Do not reply to this E-mail address.  Reply to jsadams{at}compuserve.com
>>
>>
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