Posted by: zanshin, 2007-07-19 11:55

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Date: 2007-07
"Until recently, we didn't take the Turkish threat that seriously but thought it was part of the election campaign."
But now an invasion as quite possible. The Iraqi Kurds are becoming nervous. The drumbeat of threats from Turkish politicians and generals has become more persistent.
"The government and opposition parties are competing to show nationalist fervour [ … ] Anti-PKK feeling is greater than ever in Turkey.”
-- Safeen Dezayee. A leading Iraqi Kurdish expert on Turkey and spokesman for the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Massoud Barzani






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Iraq,   Kurdistan,   Kurds,   Massoud Barzani,   Turkey,  

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