Under the Radar Rapprochement: Turkey and Iraqi Kurds | 2010 | Publications
Under the Radar Rapprochement: Turkey and Iraqi Kurds
Caitlin Talmadge
Foreign Policy, June 25, 2010 (With Mara E. Karlin)
As if the Turkish government didn’t have enough on its agenda amid the flotilla fallout, Iran’s nuclear program, and plummeting relations with Washington, late last week Turkey raided Kurdish rebel hideouts in northern Iraq. Turkish warplanes allegedly bombed targets across the border and deployed elite commandos to hunt insurgents on the ground, killing more than 100 Kurdish fighters and suffering 43 losses on its own.