"Memo to Baghdad: The Turks are serious now Threats nothing new, but Iraq's recent activities may have consequences
COMMENTARY
By Lt. Col. Rick Francona
Military analyst
MSNBC
Updated: 4:13 p.m. ET Oct 25, 2007
Lt. Col. Rick Francona
Military analyst
Turkish threats to invade northern Iraq are nothing new. The last threat of attacks was in July, when Turkey amassed 140,000 troops along the border with Iraq. The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), a Turkish Kurd separatist movement designated by the United States as a terrorist organization, stopped their cross-border operations from Iraq into Turkey, successfully warding off that attack. But in recent weeks, the PKK has restarted attacks into Turkish territory; last week alone PKK fighters killed a dozen Turkish soldiers and took eight more as captives. "
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