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Re: Turkey invades N. Iraq
Marcia — (archived)

Protecting your borders is understandable, but why the move?

[Denied their own nation after the First World War, the Kurdish people found themselves divided between six nations, including Turkey and northern Iraq. For a decade the Turkish Army fought Kurdish rebels until the arrest of Abdullah Ocalan, the guerrilla leader, brought a ceasefire in 1999.

Now even that fragile stability has begun to crumble.

Turkey is afraid that, once liberated, the Kurds of northern Iraq will declare an independent state, inspiring an upsurge of Kurdish nationalism within Turkey itself.

Kurdish leaders in Iraq say that they have no such intentions. But just in case, the Turkish Army is poised to make a powerful statement of its own.]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,5944-617202,00.html

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