Turks vs Kurds

The PPK, or Kurdistan Workers Party, last weekend led a raid on Turkish forces and ended up either capturing 12 Turkish soldiers or killing them. As a result, Turkey built up its forces and moved to the remote mountain enclaves in Iraqi Kurdistan to maybe launch an attack as a response to the previous PPK”s actions. However, the PPK noticed this and now have proclaimed that they will stop their cross-border raids if the Turkish forces withdrawal from their new positions, obviously showing that the PPK fears an attack that may lead out to a huge continued battle. If things are not solved diplomatically, then the region could be changed forever, when before it was relatively peaceful. The eight or twelve soldier that were supposedly taken were from a unit that was set up with many others that were planning to be used to weed out the PPK, which the US and Turkey both call terrorists. Bush got involved, and tried to start a diplomatic session between the leaders of Turkey and Iraq, in order to band together to take out these harmful terrorists. Bush does not want to have an invasion force come into Iraq and disband a sort of peaceful state. Bush has repeated however that the United States will not get militarily involved, and that there would be not troops stationed on that side to prevent any incursions.

The thing that worries me is that Iraq is in no way a stable country at this moment, if it flows into the country which it very well might it could cause turmoil for many years. However, I think it is smart for the US not to use forces in dealing with this issue, we are spread to thin at the moment. I think that diplomatically getting Iraq and Turkey to suppress the terrorists would be the best plan of action. If this does not work, then Bush will have to re organize and condense his soldiers and then send them to repel any terrorist.