By Conner Allen
Today, December 18th, 2007, Le Monde reported that Turkish groups had begun to withdraw from Iraqi Kurdistan. The incursion in northern Iraq was a measure “necessary in the fight against terrorism in Northern Iraq,” according to the Head of State of Turkey, Abdullah Gul. This is the first actual incursion since October, when Turkey began to heavily threaten military intervention. The intervention was in order to “dislodge the rebels of the PKK,” a Turkish Kurdish separatist group. The article questions in bold font, “Tacit Agreement of the United States?” and goes on to report the White House has refrained from objecting. Condoleeza Rice is reported as saying, “PKK activities threaten the stability of the north and there have been deaths in Turkey.”
