Turkeys impending invasion of Iraq what the MSM doesn't say [View All]

Guess what it will not be the first time

Remember in the run-up to our invasion of Iraq all the hand wringing in the media about how Saddam had gassed the Kurds?

during the 1991 Gulf War, Turkey reluctantly supported the anti-Iraq coalition, including Operation Provide Comfort, to shield Iraqi Kurds from Saddam Hussein's revenge, while the PKK intensified its guerrilla war, operating from bases in Iraq and Syria. In 1993, with the Gulf War over, Turkey sent 50,000 troops into Iraq, in a massive assault against Kurdish rebels, no longer protected. In 1994, dissenting political parties were banned, elected Kurdish representatives were accused of treason and imprisoned, while others fled into exile. Turkish forces have launched air and ground attacks, ravaging as many as 3000 Kurdish villages, forcibly relocating over 3 million villagers and defoliating forests in its scorched earth campaigns to destroy the PKK. The death toll is approaching 40,000.

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The PKK has offered to drop its demands to establish an independent, sovereign Kurdish state and proposed a semi-automonous Democratic Federal Republic that, together with the Turkish Republic, would form a Turkish Federation, similar to that in Belgium (not unlike like American States).

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much more at link

http://www.flashpoints.info/countries-conflicts/Turkey-Kurdistan-web/Turkey-Kurdistan_briefing.html