From: "Gary Britt" 

I said the Kurds didn't want a war with Turkey.  I didn't say anything
about non-Kurdish paranoia in Turkey.

Gary

"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
> 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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