Turkey shells Iraq border areas amid incursion talk

[QADRI]

ANKARA: Turkish troops have begun shelling areas across the Iraqi border in the autonomous Kurdish region, an Iraqi officer said on Sunday, as Ankara prepared to seek MPs' approval for a ground incursion.

"The shelling began on Saturday night around 10 pm (1900 GMT)," the officer said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

"It carried on sporadically," he said, adding that the shells had struck vacant areas without causing any casualties.

A witness said the shells hit around villages in the Al-Amadiyah area about 15 kilometres (9.5 miles) from the frontier and 50 kilometres (30 miles) northeast of the town of Dohuk.
A government bill seeking the go-ahead to launch an incursion any time in the next year is expected to be submitted to parliament after a cabinet meeting on Monday.

Wahid Kista, 42, who lives in the village of Kista near the Iraq-Turkey frontier, said by telephone the shelling was targeting villages in the Metin mountain area "where the PKK (Kurdistan Workers Party) has bases."

A spokesman for the PKK in Iraq, Abdul Rahman al-Jadershi, confirmed the shelling but said that reports the rebel group is crossing into Turkey to launch attacks "are not correct."

 

[QADRI]

o man another Muslim-Muslim war....

 

[AgNoStiC MuSliM]

o man another Muslim-Muslim war....

No, another State responding to terrorism on its soil, by attacking the territory that the terrorists operate from.

 

[QADRI]

No, another State responding to terrorism on its soil, by attacking the territory that the terrorists operate from.

so buddy you are in the favour of this...

 

[Tiki Tam Tam]

There goes the Caliphate in smoke!

Not only Agnostic, I also support it.

A nation comes first over religion!

Same I say for the NWFP and Taliban.

Do you feel otherwise?

 

[QADRI]

There goes the Caliphate in smoke!

Not only Agnostic, I also support it.

A nation comes first over religion!

Same I say for the NWFP and Taliban.

Do you feel otherwise?

ya i also in favour of this but only if it is against the terrorists....read the article again please there it is written that one of the shell hit the village...hannn so may be there was no terrorist. moreover before talking about NWFP and Taliban you should first look at asam states, Kashmir and Southern India. ok

 

[AgNoStiC MuSliM]

ya i also in favour of this but only if it is against the terrorists....read the article again please there it is written that one of the shell hit the village...hannn so may be there was no terrorist. moreover before talking about NWFP and Taliban you should first look at asam states, Kashmir and Southern India. ok

Collateral damage is the unfortunate reality of any military operation. Shells have killed innocent tribesmen in FATA as well.

The Kurds are an unfortunate bunch - the carving out, of so many states with artificial boundaries and the divvying up of Kurd territory between them, has ensured that as justified as their struggle may be, it is doomed to failure.

Most of the countries with large Kurdish populations remain strongly nationalistic and will never cede territory to a Kurdish State.

You misunderstood Salim - he was only suggesting that "terrorism" in FATA should not be excused or condoned, and attempts to root it out militarily condemned, because the Tribals are "Muslims". What is more important is a respect for law and order, and the right of people to live their lives without coercion of any kind, be it under the guise of "sharia law" or a warlord's dictates.

 

[Tiki Tam Tam]

ya i also in favour of this but only if it is against the terrorists....read the article again please there it is written that one of the shell hit the village...hannn so may be there was no terrorist. moreover before talking about NWFP and Taliban you should first look at asam states, Kashmir and Southern India. ok

Terrorism does not not bother me.

It has become a part of life for the world!

Agnostic,

Thank you for explaining to Qadri what I wrote .