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Thoran · 03-17-2003, 04:21 PM

I heard they'd already given the OK... but perhaps that was premature. Turkey is very much afraid of getting left out of the "post-war Iraq" loop, and with good reason. The Kurds have the potential to be a HUGE problem on their border (and inside their border). There was talk that the basic strategy of Turkey was going to be to invade Northern Iraq and supress any "nationalistic" tendencies in the Iraqi Kurds... as well as preventing a refugee flood into Kurdish areas of Turkey (which would be very destabalizing). This was even though the US and Britain only wanted them to secure the border and provide humanitarian assistance to refugee's.

I hope that the "Northern Front" plan is worth the PITA that Turkey will likely become in the post war phase. Then again... they've been pacifying Kurds for decades now, perhaps they would end up being helpful.

03-17-2003, 04:21 PM	#2
Thoran Galvatron Join Date: January 10, 2002 Location: Upstate NY Age: 57 Posts: 2,109	I heard they'd already given the OK... but perhaps that was premature. Turkey is very much afraid of getting left out of the "post-war Iraq" loop, and with good reason. The Kurds have the potential to be a HUGE problem on their border (and inside their border). There was talk that the basic strategy of Turkey was going to be to invade Northern Iraq and supress any "nationalistic" tendencies in the Iraqi Kurds... as well as preventing a refugee flood into Kurdish areas of Turkey (which would be very destabalizing). This was even though the US and Britain only wanted them to secure the border and provide humanitarian assistance to refugee's. I hope that the "Northern Front" plan is worth the PITA that Turkey will likely become in the post war phase. Then again... they've been pacifying Kurds for decades now, perhaps they would end up being helpful.