The Kurds: Iraq’s forgotten population
By Anna Husarka | Monday, December 24, 2007 | The Boston Globe
“…Tensions on the border between Iraq and Turkey – the two main US allies in the Muslim world – escalate. In the fall there were frequent cross-frontier clashes between Turkish soldiers and rebels from the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, the PKK, based in northern Iraq. This month the Turkish military used helicopters and warplanes against their positions.
Until now the reports from the field were played up by the Turkish side – eager to show that it is being tough on a group that Turkey (and the United States) consider terrorist – and played down by the Kurdish (and Iraqi/US) side, where there is no interest in fueling another conflict in Iraq. But more air raids may change the atmosphere….”…BS
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