The Australian: US military warns Turkey about Iraq raid
US military warns Turkey about Iraq raid
The US military has warned Turkey against destabilizing northern Iraq by carrying out a threatened cross-border raid on Kurdish rebels. The US armed forces have a "great relationship with the military of Turkey,'' said Brigadier General Perry Wiggins, deputy director for operations of the Pentagon's Joint Staff.Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul said Friday his country had drawn up plans for an eventual incursion into neighboring northern Iraq to pursue rebels of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) taking refuge there. Mr Gul warned that Turkey would activate its plans if the Iraqi authorities or the United States failed to curb the PKK, which is listed as a terror organization by both Ankara and Washington.
