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April 11, 2003

Turkey Accepts US Pledge Over Kurds’ Role

Turkey accepted yesterday US promises to block any bid by Iraqi Kurds to control northern oil fields, but signaled it was still ready to send its own troops if it saw a Kurdish move toward independence. Turkey sounded an alarm on Thursday after Kurdish peshmerga fighters moved into the oil city of Kirkuk abandoned by Iraqi government forces. The Kurds had crossed a “red line”, one of many Ankara sees in its fraught relations with Iraqi Kurds.

Posted By Alan at April 11, 2003 06:42 PM | TrackBack

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turkey has no right to determine kurdish independance in Iraq.

Turkey itself has serious crimes that they have commited against the kurds.
the kurds have every right to be a independant people, they are a separate culture, and they should have the right to exist as such, no different than the jews.
Kick the turks ass, muslim bastards

Posted by: Goose at April 11, 2003 09:20 PM

If I were a Kurd in Iraq I would be sniping the Turkish "observers."

The Turks are being blow-hards in this anyway. They lost the war to their own Kurds until we gave them helicopters which they used against civilians in a way the US never would do.

WE are just helping Ankara save face, they and we know they can't do anyting in Iraq except blow their hollow military reputation to smitherines.

Posted by: Cores at April 12, 2003 08:18 AM