Just yesterday, the Turkish government said they had given the green light to its Army to cross into Iraq to fight Kurd rebels BUT they said that no such maneuver was imminent. Guess what? They lied. Just 18 hours later and Turkish troops have moved into Northern Iraq.
I'm tellin' ya. This is like sitting on a keg of dynamite.
Here's the story from Reuters.
Turk army enters N.Iraq to hit
rebels
ANKARA, Dec 1 (Reuters) - Turkey's army said it entered northern Iraq on
Saturday to tackle up a group of up to 60 Kurdish rebels, a day after Prime
Minister Tayyip Erdogan's cabinet authorised a cross-border operation against
the PKK.
It was not clear whether the incursion was a major operation by
NATO member Turkey aimed at destroying bases of the Kurdistan Workers Party
(PKK).
A spokesman for Iraqi Kurdish leader Massoud Barzani said there had
been no incursion by Turkish troops into the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region of
northern Iraq.
The Turkish army said on its Web site that a group of 50 to
60 PKK rebels had been spotted inside Iraq's borders.
"An intense
intervention was made on the group and it was detected that the terrorist group
had suffered heavy casualties," it said.
Turkey has amassed up to 100,000 troops near the mountainous
border, backed up by tanks, artillery and warplanes, for a possible
strike into mainly Kurdish northern Iraq.
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