Critical Update on Turkish-Iraqi Situation
The situation along the Turkish-Iraqi border is on the edge of an abyss due to additional events over the weekend. If concrete, corrective action to deal with the terrorist threat involving the PKK is not executed immediately the repercussions to the region, to NATO and, perhaps most importantly, to US national security objectives in all of South West Asia could be nothing short of catastrophic.
This current article from the
TIMES ONLINE speaks to directly these ciritical issues.
Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan's comments are totally unambiguous. I quote from the Times report:
"Whatever is necessary will be done ... We don't have to get permission from anybody."
That means the Turks are on the verge of launching their own preemptive invasion of northern Iraq, and, all things considered, that would be an event nothing short of catastrophic, a paradigm shifter of major proportions.
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Sean Osborne, is the Associate Director, Military Affairs, Northeast Intelligence Network.
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