Showing posts with label cross-border Operations. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cross-border Operations. Show all posts

Friday, October 12, 2007

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan Says Turkey Ready To Pay Price Of Any Military Campaign In Iraq

The International Herald Tribune website has this troubling report out today and it goes in part like this... The Turkish parliament was expected to approve a government request to authorize an Iraq campaign as early as next week, after a holiday ending the Islamic holy month of Ramadan... "We are making necessary preparations to be ready in case we decide on a cross-border operation since we don't have patience to lose more time," Erdogan said, adding that Turkey has lost 30 people in rebel attacks over the past two weeks...
Read the story HERE

Saturday, April 14, 2007

Turkey plans cross-border Operations against Turkish-Kurd Separatist Facilities in Northern Iraq

If Turkey intrudes into northern Iraq for a military operation against Kurdish separatists it would mean war, a senior Kurdish lawmaker warns.
The Turkish Army chief of staff, Gen. Yasr Buyukanit, said in Ankara Friday it was necessary to carry out a large-scale military operation against Kurdish insurgents in northern Iraq and southeast Turkey, Novosti reported...
Read the story at IMEDINEWS.ge