The viewpoint Kordih
Kurds will not accept conditions in the fight against the Turkish »Kurdistan«
Arbil : announced by Masoud Barzani, head of Kurdistan, Jalal Talabani President of the Republic of Iraq for refusing federal requirements in the fight against the Turkish Kurdistan Workers Party against a dialogue with Turkey, as stated by a spokesman for the Turkish Foreign.
Barzani said in a joint press conference with Talabani in Salah Eddin summer resort : the condition, put in addressing the PKK fact we Anqubl and we have always said we will help Turkey with all the possibilities if they pursued a peaceful solution, we now agree, but if the goal of Turkey just war, we are not prepared to accept this condition.
Barzani, the Turkish invasion said that happened to the Kurdistan region is beyond the Iraqi sovereignty before the encroachment on the sovereignty and said the Kurdish Barzani : Turkish forces did not enter the territory of Kurdistan and the Turkish threat that happened, it would encroach upon the sovereignty of Iraq and not only the Kurds.
For his part, Talabani stressed that the dialogue the best way to address this issue and said : We hope and wish that there was no invasion of Turkey and take the path of dialogue and fraternity and negotiation to resolve all issues.
He added : there is a tripartite committee of Turkish American Iraqi responsible for these issues we hope that this matter should be referred to this Committee.
Regarding Article 140 constitutional Talabani said : Article 140 we consider a fundamental article of the Iraqi Constitution and agree on constitutional amendments based on the survival of Article 140 and this is a matter of Amsaumeh for us.
Talabani also announced the formation of two committees by the Kurdish leadership to follow up the application of this article, one in the Kurdistan province and the other in Baghdad and said : we have formed a committee in Kurdistan, led by President Barzani to follow up the application of Article 140 and the other officials in Baghdad includes Kurds to follow up phases and will be applied to two coordination and communication among them.
In reply to a question about the attitude of the authorities of the Kurdish targeting Kurds in areas outside the authority of the province said Barzani : although we remain passive before this terrorism targeting Kurds in areas outside the authority of the province.
The viewpoint of Turkish
Turkish army threatens responded manner he deems appropriate
Ankara Reuters : The Joint Staff of the Turkish Army, Friday's armed forces to fight terrorism, she has all the right to respond as they see fit separatist attacks on the Kurds.
And the Joint Chiefs of Staff published a statement on its web site at the time of escalated when speculation about a military operation with the Turkish army in northern Iraq to deal with Kurdish fighters stationed there.
The body in her directly referred to the statements by General Chief of Staff Boikanet two months ago in which it urged the Turkish government to allow army troops entered northern Iraq to eliminate the rebels.
She said the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the Turkish Army, in its statement »Turkish armed forces wholeheartedly determined to fight terrorism and the indisputable fact that we respond to these attacks« pointing to a series of strikes Kurdish fighters against civilian and military targets in Turkey.
A statement of Staff »is the time to see the reality of these events« top organizations and individuals said they exploit the ideas of democracy and freedom »smokescreen« to defend terrorism.
This wave of criticism seems particularly to the European Union, which Turkey aspires to join. The army says that the reforms demanded by the European Union hinder its efforts to eliminate terrorism.
This statement led to a reduction in the Turkish lira in the market about 1%.
The official, who spoke on condition his name not be revealed »can not be called a process of cross-border .. it is a limited«.
The official said it is not surprising that Turkish forces launched raids »chase immediate« across the mountainous border with Iraq where it is believed that an estimated 4000 rebels from the banned Kurdistan Workers Party hiding.
Analysts say that the Turkish military incursion considerably in northern Iraq is still unlikely because of the risks of political, diplomatic and security but with the approaching elections in July next public opinion pressure on the government and army to I_dda in their positions.
The viewpoint of American
An incursion of Turkish troops in Iraq nightmare for Washington
Washington Reuters : analysts said that the incursion of Turkish troops on a large scale in northern Iraq is a nightmare for the United States could lead to instability in this region of Iraq, which is relatively calm.
Analysts and adds that the danger lies in the possibility of Turkey being caught in the crossfire of wider conflict with the Iraqi Kurds, even though Ankara originally sought to conduct a small-scale as that other region including Iran may feel bold.
Omar said Taspinar analyst Brookings institution »may open the doors of hell to enter the quagmire in Iraq .. to become a quagmire regional contest which countries of the region wars in Iraq«.
Said John Alterman, director of the Middle East Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, »complete impasse lies in the north of Iraq and creates problems for all of what we are trying to do in Iraq. It creates problems for our defense relationship with Turkey and also creates a more chaotic in the area of the world that we desperately need because Equally Near chaos «.
The struggling American forces in Iraq and the strength of 155 thousand troops already in the counter-insurgency in Iraq and thereby avoid by Washington as much as possible is fighting in northern Iraq, which he had obtained self-rule from the late President Saddam Hussein in 1991 one of the calmer areas of Iraq and least violent.
The United States did not hide their intentions and the American Secretary of Defense Robert Gates again last Sunday when he told reporters that he hoped that there will be no unilateral military action across the border into Iraq.
Popular feelings
The analysts said that there are feelings of growing popularity in Turkey, Ankara demands that the government make greater efforts to fight rebels of the Kurdistan Workers Party, in the wake of a series of attacks, but they said that it appears that there is no strong intent to Turkey for a massive operation across the border.
Zeno Baran said a researcher in the high-Hudson Research Institute in Washington »does not want any of the civilian and military leadership, in fact, any process strongly oppose the American government. They also were taught a lesson from Israel's experience with Hezbollah in southern Lebanon is why they do not want to be in a the siege in the fighting or to fight a conflict without end «.
She »my focus on it will have to do something at some stage, which might be limited, and the big question is that the intentions may be limited .. but there are often unforeseen consequences«.
KRG, Kurdistan Regional Government