Hi Cetin,

I'm curious then, why are Turkish troops inside Northern Iraq? I have a friend with SOF that is up there and has been working with the Kurds AND the Turkish troops for sometime. The impression in the U.S. among most people I know (I realize this could be way off base because we don't have good information regarding Turkey's position politically) is that Turkey is afraid that the Kurds in Northern Iraq will use this opportunity to create a sovereign state for themselves and that will create unrest among the kurds in Turkey.
I'm sure there must be more to it than that or at least a different story entirely.

>Jim,
>We're not worried about threats from Iraq. Clearly this 'war' is not for suppressing threats or against terrorism etc. Oil is there, key to control region is there. Bush found a way to brain wash majority of his citizens so here we go.
>Cetin