Turkey and Iraq announced that Iraq's Prime Minister will visit Turkey, apparently to discuss the PKK, protecting the rights of Turkomen (ie, Turks) living in Iraq, and Iran. The impending visit comes as approximately two corps of Turkish troops are operating in the Iraq-Turkey border area and rumors continue about an impending Turkish strike at PKK bases in northern Iraq.
If the recent Bush-Brown talks and high level visits to the Middle East are related to dealing with Iran soon (hopefully with a revolt to destroy the mullahs but perhaps just an air campaign to cripple nuclear programs), could the Turks seek to assist us against Iran by hitting Kurdish terrorists by driving a corps into the Iranian Kurdish areas to stop supplies from Iran from flowing through Iraq to Turkey? Turkey has a lot of stuff there with a lot of domestic pressure to hit the PKK terrorists but a lot of pressure is on them by us to not strike Iraq's Kurdish region.
I've seen nothing, but I have no doubt that Iran is helping arm Kurds willing to fight Turkey.
The administration keeps jerking that football away at the last minute, but I just have a gut feeling that President Bush won't pass this problem on to his successor without trying to stop Iran. It seems like experts have been saying Iran is five to ten years from a nuclear bomb ever since September 11, 2001.
