"Hold Back Turkish adventurism in Iraq would be an unmitigated disaster
If Turkey’s Army is to be taken at face value, it has 140,000 troops and substantial detachments of heavy armour massed along the country’s southeastern border. It has the Government’s approval in principle for cross-border incursions into Kurdish Iraq. It awaits only parliamentary approval, which could be given as early as today, before launching such operations. And it has ample justification in the form of a 30-year running battle with separatist fighters of the Kurdis-tan Workers’ Party (PKK), which has cost 30,000 lives, including those of 13 Turkish soldiers gunned down on their own soil on Sunday."
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