This should not be a huge surprise to anyone, right? It was one of the nightmare scenarios held up by anti-war wimps even before the USA invaded Iraq.
Those poor poor bastards living in those mountains, like their lives are not hard enough already.
Turkey has lately been softening up public opinion and the news media by the sorties and bombings in northern Iraq and lo and behold, they barely caused a ripple in the press. Very positive for the hawks!
Now they went in all guns blazing. Thousands of troops. This is a full-on invasion.
There go the Kurds... I wonder if their fierce loyalty to the USA is about to be rewarded now.
(I'm being cynical here - I don't expect Turkey did this without getting the okay from the USA first)
The US and the Iraqi government are eager to play down the extent of the invasion. Rear Admiral Gregory Smith, a US spokesman for Iraq, said: "We understand [it] is an operation of limited duration to specifically target PKK terrorists in that region." The Iraqi Foreign minister, Hoshyar Zebari, claimed that only a few hundred Turkish troops were in Iraq.
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A few hundred troops. Riiiight.
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