Kurdish rebel commander warns Turkey against attacks on Iraqi region

Published: 10.14.07, 15:07 / Israel News

Murat Karayilan, head of the armed wing of the Kurdistan Workers’
Party, or PKK, has warned Turkey it would encounter tough resistance
and a dragged-out, Vietnam-style conflict, if it launched a
large-scale offensive against the Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq.

An aggressive incursion by the US ally into Iraq would prompt the
rebels to retaliate with protracted and bloody attacks, said Karayilan
on Saturday. ”Iraq’s Kurds will not support the Turkish army,” he
said. ”If Turkey starts its attack, we will swing the Turkish public
opinion by political, civil and military struggle.” (AP)

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