KB9YCO
10-17-2007, 05:03 PM
<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071017/ap_on_re_mi_ea/turkey" target="_blank"> ANKARA, Turkey - Parliament on Wednesday overwhelmingly approved a possible cross-border offensive against Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq, although the government appears willing to give diplomatic pressure on the U.S.-backed Iraqi administration more time to work...
...Bush also noted that Tariq al-Hashimi, one of Iraq's vice presidents, was in Istanbul expressing that Iraq shares Turkey's concerns about terrorist activities, but that there's a better way to deal with the issue than sending more troops into Iraq...
...Wednesday's motion — authorizing an attack into Iraq sometime in the next year — had the backing from all of Turkey's parliamentary parties except a small Kurdish party.</a>
I hope this doesn't further excerbate the problems in Iraq, but I suppose it's nothing new for mid-eastern countries to fight with one another over religious extremism and terrorism. Seems like a bad sign though, I hope it doesn't make things worse than they already are.
...Bush also noted that Tariq al-Hashimi, one of Iraq's vice presidents, was in Istanbul expressing that Iraq shares Turkey's concerns about terrorist activities, but that there's a better way to deal with the issue than sending more troops into Iraq...
...Wednesday's motion — authorizing an attack into Iraq sometime in the next year — had the backing from all of Turkey's parliamentary parties except a small Kurdish party.</a>
I hope this doesn't further excerbate the problems in Iraq, but I suppose it's nothing new for mid-eastern countries to fight with one another over religious extremism and terrorism. Seems like a bad sign though, I hope it doesn't make things worse than they already are.