Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is to present a motion to parliament asking for approval for military incursions into northern Iraq to pursue Kurdish rebels there.
He told CNN-Turk TV on Wednesday that he could present the bill as early as Thursday. It would then be voted upon as early as next week and would give the government a one-year authorization to launch military operations across the border against the banned Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).
"Baghdad has little influence in the largely autonomous Kurdish north, while Washington does not want to rock the boat in what is Iraq's most peaceful region." Indeed.
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