"Commentary: Turkey could create new Iraqi front
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Claude Salhani, Middle East Times
April 16, 2007
-- Turkey's military, long regarded as the protector and guarantor of the Kemalist ideal of a state based on 'laïcité' - the separation of church and state and the absence of religious interference into government affairs - asked the Ankara administration last week to approve attacks on Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq. The reason for the request given by the Turkish military was its mounting frustration over the inability of Iraqi government and US forces to prevent Kurds from attacking Turkish troops across the border. "
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