"Kurds upsetting the Turks at their breakfast"

“Turkey's Evolving Anti-Terrorism Measures on the Iraqi Border”
Excerpt(s): “Along the Turkish-Iraqi border, the struggle between Turkish security forces
and Kurdish militants is escalating. The Turkish press has released testimonies from
captured Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants who claim to have witnessed U.S.
armored vehicles supplying weapons to a PKK base on Mount Qandil (The New
Anatolian, July 2). Regardless of its ultimate veracity, this news is being widely reported
in the Turkish press and is inflaming the already slowly deteriorating relations between
Turkey and the United States. There has been talk for months regarding an expected
Turkish incursion into northern Iraq, but preparations along the border indicate that the
Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) are also intent on developing a permanent security zone in
the Iraqi border region.”
Context/Analysis: In a separate story, The Christian Science Monitor examines the role
of the Kurdish minority in Turkey and argues that not all Turkish Kurds support PKK aims.
For more on this story, see the second link.
http://www.jamestown.org/terrorism/news/article.php?articleid=2373517
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0706/p06s02-wosc.html