"When it comes to invading Iraq, what would Ataturk do?
BY BRIDGET JOHNSON, Columnist Article Last Updated: 10/30/2007 01:14:13 AM PDT
'I am not ordering you to attack; I am ordering you to die,' Mustafa Kemal Ataturk is quoted as telling his troops in the 1915 battle of Gallipoli, in which British and French forces were prevented from taking Istanbul with heavy casualties. So seems the motto of Kurdish rebels who keep ambushing Turkish soldiers on the Iraqi border, racking up a Turkish body count of 42 in the last month as well as kidnapping eight soldiers."
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