http://www.en.baybak.com/turkey-set-to-defy-us-and-hunt-kurdish-rebels.azr BayBak, Voice of a Nation Wed, 03 Dec 2008 02:25:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 http://www.en.baybak.com/turkey-set-to-defy-us-and-hunt-kurdish-rebels.azr#comment-3169 Buck Mon, 30 Jul 2007 09:35:00 +0000 http://www.en.baybak.com/?p=908#comment-3169 The situation inside Turkey http://www.atlantic-community.org/index.php/articles/view/Turkey%3A_Tough_Challenges_for_AKP_Despite_Landslide_Victory is indeed bending the US will to the degree that it looks like headlines will no longer read "Turkey to Defy US". Bob Novak is reporting today that the Bush administration will, indeed, engage in the North of Iraq along side the Turkish forces http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/29/AR2007072900859.html. Of course the US would love to continue to point to the (relative) stability in Kurdistan as a minor victory in an otherwise big mess. It's in no American interest to destabilize the North. But . . . and here's the big but . . . Erdogan"s AKP just won a landslide election in Turkey. This is an exercise of new mandate, a bone to the military establishment that continues to threaten any governing party in Turkey and a move to mollify the population who detests the PKK and what they represent. The only thing Bush CAN do is hope to keeping the damage at a reasonably manageable level. I think that's what he and his boys are trying to do. The situation inside Turkey http://www.atlantic-community.org/index.php/articles/view/Turkey%3A_Tough_Challenges_for_AKP_Despite_Landslide_Victory is indeed bending the US will to the degree that it looks like headlines will no longer read “Turkey to Defy US”. Bob Novak is reporting today that the Bush administration will, indeed, engage in the North of Iraq along side the Turkish forces http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/29/AR2007072900859.html. Of course the US would love to continue to point to the (relative) stability in Kurdistan as a minor victory in an otherwise big mess. It’s in no American interest to destabilize the North. But . . . and here’s the big but . . . Erdogan”s AKP just won a landslide election in Turkey. This is an exercise of new mandate, a bone to the military establishment that continues to threaten any governing party in Turkey and a move to mollify the population who detests the PKK and what they represent. The only thing Bush CAN do is hope to keeping the damage at a reasonably manageable level. I think that’s what he and his boys are trying to do.

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