Several thousand Turkish troops crossed into northern Iraq early Wednesday to chase Kurdish guerrillas who operate from bases there, Turkish security officials told The Associated Press. Two senior security officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media, said the raid was limited in scope and that it did not constitute the kind of large incursion that Turkish leaders have been discussing in recent weeks. ''It is not a major offensive and the number of troops is not in the tens of thousands,'' one of the officials told the AP by telephone. The official is based in southeast Turkey, where the military has been battling separatist Kurdish rebels since they took up arms in 1984.
This could be very bad. Of course Turkey has been signalling for a while that they were going to do this, so I bet the administration has a plan, right? Sure. Do we side with the Kurds or the Turks? Could we possibly sell the Kurds out for the second time in a couple of decades? Wait, don't answer that.
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