From: "Mark" 

So you say, and so all the usual pundits say. I say, as I already did, if
Turkey is smart they'll embrace that relative calm and profit from it, as
will Kurdistan 

I don't believe in the consistent doom and gloom scenarios being played out
as inevitable by all the "smart" people out there -- you seem to
buy into their analysis from afar, that's your right Rich, but excuse me if
I don't agree with the fear mongering.


"Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
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> Turkey claims oil fields and land in Kurdistan.  Turkey also has 13
> million ethnic Kurds and  has been battling the PKK for decades.  One
> man's terrorist is another's freedom fighter.  Once the Iraqi civil war
> really gets going watch the Turks come over the border under the pretext
> of keeping the peace. They see an independent Kurdistan as a major threat
>
>
> "Mark"  wrote in message
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>> 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. > think Turkey will prove to be smart, but if they're not, it will surely
>> be Bush's fault for one reason or another over in moonbat land>
>>
>>
>> "Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
>> news:44da9d80$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>> 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
.htm
>>> 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
>>> news:44da99f9$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>>> 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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