Turkey’s Iraq problem
By David Phillips | Thursday, November 1, 2007 | The Boston Globe
“…PRIME MINISTER Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey is under tremendous pressure to act decisively against the Kurdistan Workers’ Party. He should resist demands for military action. Attacking the PKK in Northern Iraq would have serious repercussions, undermining Turkey’s democratic development, radicalizing Turkish Kurds, and risking a regional conflagration while adversely affecting relations between the United States and Turkey, as well as Turkey’s candidacy for membership in the European Union….”…BS
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