"...The real military danger unfolds, largely unnoticed, up north in Kurdistan. The Turks have been beefing up their VI Corps, which would be the logical command to undertake serious operations into northern Iraq. This would be instead of the continuous small-scale incursions that the Turks have been engaging in for some years now. Meanwhile, Iran, concerned about its increasingly unruly Kurdish minority, has also been reported to be shifting some troops to Kurdish areas, and firing more artillery shells at suspected PKK (Kurdish separatist) positions across the border in Iraq.... "
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