ISTANBUL, Turkey - Turkish troops launched a ground incursion across the border into Iraq in pursuit of separatist Kurdish rebels, the military said Friday — a move that dramatically escalates Turkey's conflict with the militants.
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It is the first confirmed ground operation by the Turkish military into Iraq since the US.-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein. It also raised concerns that it could trigger a wider conflict with the US.-backed Iraqi Kurds, despite Turkey's assurances that its only target was the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK.

Ibime:

Yankee go allow anybody when dey play their game do whatever they want. The Kurds have a just cause but Yankee refuse to recognise them as a people. Because Turkey let Yankee put their military installations in Turkey, they give Turkey free hand to do whatever they want. Yankee should pray that these Kurds don't get angry and start causing them havoc in Iraq as a reprisal for their actions.

@ SabiSabi, Yankee did the same to us in Biafra as the do to the Kurds now. One day they will do the same to Odudua as they do to Niger Delta too.

texazzpete:

So the frantic attempts by the Bush administration to dissuade the turkish millitary from invading Iraqi territory were lost on you abi?
The furore surrounding this action had been on the news for quite a while. How could you miss it?

it figures, sha. armchair critics like yourself speak out of ignorance 99% of the time.

Ibime:

Which furore over invading Iraq? Was it the Bush administration that were trying to dissuade Turkey?- Or the press?

Those are two different things - did George Bush or Condo Rice come out and say they did not want Turkey to invade Iraq? or was it pundits on CBN or ABC news? Abeg stop talking nonsense.

The Bush administration have stressed that Turkey have a right to flush out Kurdish militants from Iraq as part of the right afforded countries by the UN charter to defend themselves.

You really think Turkey can step foot in Iraq without Yankee's permission? - you must be an idiot then!

Afam:

The US has taught Turkey well, invade any country you like and explain your actions to the birds.

Are Kurds musli m ? -are they fighting for religious or nationalistic causes?

bawomolo:

yes MEND is a terrorist group.

It doesn't really concern me - my general argument is that Yankee and Europe do not support the break up of countries anywhere except Europe.

bawomolo:

what non-millitant programs does MEND have for them not to be considered a terror group?? a group that engages in kidnappings or oil bunkering is a terrorist group.

bawomolo:

why should the west support the fragmentation of countries

Taking our own oil is what you call oil bunkering.

And who told you we don't have a political wing?

Thats why they hide our boys in their villages when they are carrying out their guerilla operations.

Yeah - just like they supported the fragmentation of the Balkans, the Velvet revolution and the new state of Kosovo - because they want Peace & Prosperity in their lands - and division in ours. The only fragmentation they do not support in Europe are the Catalonia, Galician and Andalucian states because the people there are living happily anyway and there is no real will to break off on their part. Have you finished eating your masters shit yet?

bawomolo:

can u list the social welfare programs and organization of your political wing?? why do u spend most money on weapons rather than support the welfare of niger delta people. was ken saro wiwa buying ak-47's

bawomolo:

in other words they harbour terrorists rather than deal with the real issues affecting niger delta people. as i suspected, MEND is more concerned with oil revenue for itself rather than liberation.

bawomolo:

the last time i checked spain and a few european countries have not supported kosovo yet. why do u expect european countries to intervene in the domestic affairs of SOVEREIGN countries. countries like france and portugal gave support to biafra and that went nowhere. the balkans self-destructed, western nations didn't do that. it's stupid to call for fragmentation of african countries as if that would change the mentality of african leaders.

bawomolo:

the balkans self-destructed, western nations didn't do that. it's stupid to call for fragmentation of african countries as if that would change the mentality of african leaders.

4 Play:

This is the problem with those who see the world through the prism of anti-Americanism.To the extent that there are victims of Turkey's policy,it is the Kurdish inhabitants of Northern Iraq first and foremost and not the US.So the sophomoric twaddle about "teaching the US well" is absurd.

Darch:
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Let me pause with these two for now.

makydebbie:


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Darch:


Thanks for your response.

Yes. Kindly ask your friend.

When you say 6k, is that in cedis or naira?

Darch:


Thanks for your response.

Yes. Kindly ask your friend.

When you say 6k, is that in cedis or naira?

makydebbie:


Hey dear,

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Darch:


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makydebbie:


I've sent you a mail.

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