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Tuesday, May 29, 2007

What will Ankara do? - Editorials/Op-Ed - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper

"What will Ankara do?

TODAY'S COLUMNIST
By Tulin Daloglu
May 29, 2007

ANKARA, Turkey.
Last week, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that if Turkey's generals wish, he will secure parliamentary support for them to carry out a cross-border operation into northern Iraq to go after the Kurdish separatist PKK. In April, Gen. Yasar Buyukanit, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the military believes such an operation is necessary, and that he thinks that it would be successful. He noted, however, that such a plan requires government approval. "

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