"Turkey’s prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has suggested that a vote could
be held next week in Parliament to allow military incursions into Iraq, and
Sadullah Ergin, a senior government official, said today that the motion could
come as early as Monday, according to the state-run Anatolian News Agency. On
Wednesday, the Associated Press reported from the town of Sirnak that Turkish
warplanes and helicopters were attacking positions along the southern border
with Iraq that are suspected of belonging to Kurdish rebels who have been
fighting Turkish forces for years. The prospect of military action by Turkey has
been raised following a recent upsurge in violence blamed on Kurdish rebels. On
Wednesday night, a policeman was killed and six others were injured in a bomb
attack in the Kurdish city of Diyarbakir in southeastern Turkey, the Anatolian
news agency reported. "
The irony is that until now the Kurds have been the least of the concerns in Iraq. They could turn into the biggest problem in Iraq, but also the biggest problem in the Middle East. Battles with Turkey could spill over into both Iraq and Iran, potentially infecting even Syria.
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