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[Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines] Iraq, Turkey Look to End Kurdish Clashes: “We have requested that the Kurdish administration puts pressure on PKK units to give up their weapons or leave the region,” Mr Talabani said, referring to Iraq’s Kurdish autonomous region.
[Socialist Party Australia] Turkey’s invasion destabilising region: The main victims in this geopolitical conflict are the Kurdish and Turkish civilians living in the war zone. The Socialist Party has previously reported in January that bombing raids of Kurdish villages inside Iraq have killed and injured many civilians and forced thousands to flee despite the harsh winter conditions.
[The Moderate Voice] Iraqi Kurdish MP Blames US Occupation Forces for Turkish Invasion: He was referring to declarations by the President of the Kurdish Autonomous Region, Masoud Al-Barzani, who visited the city of Dahuk (capital of Dahuk Province in north Iraq - see map, right) on Friday in order to calm residents there.
[The Left Coaster] Turkey's assault on Iraqi Kurdistan: The camp, situated in a deep valley just a six-kilometer (four-mile) walk from the Turkish border, has been identified by the military as a major staging post used by Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) rebels to launch attacks into Turkish territory.
[Past Peak] The Disintegration Of Iraq: The Turkish government piously claims that its army is in pursuit of PKK Turkish Kurd guerrillas, but it is unlikely to inflict serious damage on them as they hide in long-prepared bunkers and deep ravines of the Kurdish mountains. What the Turkish incursion is doing is weakening the Kurdistan Regional Government, the autonomous Kurdish zone, the creation of which is one of the few concrete achievements of the US and British invasion of Iraq five years ago.
[Wilheminaitai's Weblog] Interview with Peshmerga Colonel Salahdin Part One: Salahdin has been fighting against Iraqi dictators since theToday Michael Totten and I had the unique honor of being the first journalists to videotape Peshmerga Colonel Salahdin Ahmad Kareem. Col. Salahdin has been fighting against Iraqi dictators since the 1960s and is currently serving as a liaison to the Coalition in Sulaymani, Iraq. Captured by the Baath in 1977 he was tortured for over two months and then sent to Abu Ghraib prison where he was greeted by a gauntlet of other prisoners beating him severely. For over two years in Abu Ghraib he was repeatedly beaten and tortured by the guards. The Colonel taught himself English while fighting from the mountains and participated in every mission by the 10th US Special Forces Group to liberate Iraq in 2003. Clear eyed and still genial after decades of hard campaigning, this guy is the real deal.
[Florida Jewish Blog] Israel, Turks, and Jews”¦Again: Another point against the Turkish self-defence argument is that Turkey driven by a racist paranoia against the Kurds has forfeited such a right by constantly and publicly interfering in Iraqi issues and threatening Iraqi Kurds that Turkey would not let them to push for Iraqi federalism and currently threatening the Kurds that Turkey would intervene if they incorporate Kirkuk into the Kurdistan Region according to the 2005 Iraqi Constitution. You will appreciate that on a purely international legal point of view if Iraqi Kurds or any part Iraqi population want even manage to break up the country whether peacefully or by force, just like what happened not long ago in former Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia, the neighbouring countries have no right under the UN Charter to intervene by force.
[politicalgroove Forums] IraQi Kurdish troops surround Turks in worst confrontation yet in Iraq: “This is a matter of the sovereignty of Iraq and the unity of Iraq,” said Falah Bakir, the head of the foreign relations department of the regional government. “We hope that there will be no clashes — the Kurdistan Regional Government has done enough to show our goodwill to Turkey.”
[matthewgood.org » Matthew Good] Faces Of Freedom: “Turkish concerns focus on the area around multi-ethnic Kirkuk, where the Brotherhood slate allied to the Kurdish Alliance of Jalal Talabani and Massoud Barzani won 59% of the provincial council vote. The Turkoman Front, representing a minority that Ankara has vowed to protect, took 18%.
[Counterterrorism Blog] Reflections on the February 2008 Turkish Operation in Northern Iraq: Initially, two reinforced brigades -- some 10,000 Turkish soldiers -- supported this operation, and that number then increased. Fewer than 1,000 special operations and mountain troops actually crossed deeply into Iraq and this number was increased to more than 3,000 commandos.
[The Warpublican Review] America Fails the Kurds, Once Again: ”“Turkey has given its assurances,” reported the New York Times, ”it will do everything possible to avoid collateral damage to innocent civilians or Kurdish infrastructure.” Of course all armies make this claim, and with bridges and roads already destroyed by Turkish bombs, Iraqi Kurds can’t rest easy.
[Round Table Blog] Turkey: The Challenges Ahead: This stark reality of the Kurdish people has only further fueled the drive for separate homeland amongst the dissidents. While conditions for the Kurdish people changed slightly for the better during the presidency of Turgut Özal in the early 1990s, today they still remain on the fringes of Turkish society with incidents such as one in June 2007 when a popularly elected Turkish mayor was sacked in a move supported by the High Court on the grounds of “giving information on various municipal services such as culture, art, environment, city cleaning and health in languages other than Turkish is against the Constitution” brings to light the plight of the Kurds in Turkey.
[patric/cpa] IRAQ CALLS TURKISH FORCES 'DIRECT THREAT TO THE PEACE': The operation is targeting the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, in Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region, where Baghdad has little power. The rebels are hiding along the mountainous border region, and the Kurdish Regional Government says it .
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