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10-15-2007, 02:11 PM
KURDISH rebel commander has warned Turkey it would encounter tough resistance and a dragged-out, Vietnam-style conflict, if it launched a large-scale offensive against the Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq.
An aggressive incursion by the US ally into Iraq would prompt the rebels to retaliate with protracted attacks, said Murat Karayilan, head of the armed wing of the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK.
Mr Karayilan warned that an eventual Turkish incursion would "make Turkey experience a Vietnam War".
The warning came after Turkish troops sent shells crashing across the Iraqi border into several villages in the autonomous Kurdish region, as Ankara prepared to ask MPs to approve a ground incursion. Residents of a village near the northern Iraqi border town of Zakhu fled after shells slammed into their homes and farms during a day-long bombardment that caused major damage but no casualties, said Kurdistan regional government spokesman Jamal Abdullah.
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22590450-663,00.html
An aggressive incursion by the US ally into Iraq would prompt the rebels to retaliate with protracted attacks, said Murat Karayilan, head of the armed wing of the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK.
Mr Karayilan warned that an eventual Turkish incursion would "make Turkey experience a Vietnam War".
The warning came after Turkish troops sent shells crashing across the Iraqi border into several villages in the autonomous Kurdish region, as Ankara prepared to ask MPs to approve a ground incursion. Residents of a village near the northern Iraqi border town of Zakhu fled after shells slammed into their homes and farms during a day-long bombardment that caused major damage but no casualties, said Kurdistan regional government spokesman Jamal Abdullah.
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22590450-663,00.html