Time to reply to Apostallian Now for his comment on 11/06/2007 9:23.22 am : Patience is a virtue for Turks. They never lean on others but themselves. History is full of their courageous wars, losses and victories. They have established 16 empires throughout their 4000 year past and never been a slave nation to any other. Maybe therefore they are not only well known as deadly warriors, but managed to govern their region with no conflict they can not over come.
So follow todays news and also wait for days to come. Yes only members of the nations accepting slavery can be called brats. As you may bear a grudge against Turks, sorry to think so, but you or your ancestors might be members of those lived in slavery, but never could show the courage to fight a war without leaning on the others. So go back to history 101 and learn more about before to talk about. Watch the news and see how Turks sacrifice their life and blood (like the color of their flag) to protect their Nation as they always do against anybody regardless of their ethnicity. Do not count on some traitors to win against this nation. History showed it otherwise so far.
As you might have forgotten your history I just wanted to remind your biased comment below.
apostallians Comment : When is turkey going to quit be the worlds biggest cry-baby,they act like a badly behaved brat who doesnt get its own way.Quit leaning on the other countries for help all the time.You boast of being a great power,but i think you are afraid of the Kurds and all of this threats is only shadow-boxing.
'The Situation Has Become … Unacceptable'
Turkey's ambassador warns that patience is running short. The military option is open.
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Turkey has deadly enemies in Iraq who continue to carry out raids across the border. One of the more provocative attacks took place on Oct. 21 when militants of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) killed a dozen Turkish soldiers and captured eight others. Yet the Bush administration wants Turkey to show restraint and to hold off on any military incursion into Iraqi territory. That strikes some in Turkey as hypocritical, given Washington's own determination to fight anti-American terrorists.
The border tensions come at an already sensitive moment in relations between Turkey and the United States. In recent weeks, a U.S. congressional committee approved a resolution that would have designated Turkish massacres of Armenians in 1915 as "genocide." The measure stalled on its way to the House floor only after it became clear that Turkey could respond by halting cooperation with U.S. forces in Iraq, cutting off vital supply routes.
With Turks, Kurds and Iraqis all sensing an escalating crisis, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan meets with President Bush in Washington on Monday. NEWSWEEK's Jeffrey Bartholet recently spoke to Ankara's ambassador to the United States, Nabi Sensoy, and got a sense of Turkey's frustrations. Excerpts:
NEWSWEEK: First of all, do you know anything about the status of the Turkish soldiers taken captive?
Nabi Sensoy: Well, efforts must be going on in Turkey and elsewhere to free the eight soldiers.
Are the Americans involved in those efforts?
I presume so. Those who have responsibility for Iraq, and northern Iraq, I'm sure they are trying to do something.
Turkey has threatened to attack the PKK bases on the Iraqi side of the border. What are the chances that Turkish forces will actually cross the border?
Let me talk to you about the mood in Turkey, which is one of outrage. Tens of thousands of people are taking to the streets to protest PKK terrorist activities in all the major cities. With this kind of reaction from the people, if you are the government, you cannot remain unresponsive. So the mood is very somber, and the government feels its responsibility to take all necessary measures to ensure the safety of the Turkish people. That is why they have asked for authorization from Parliament to intervene militarily in northern Iraq in pursuit of PKK terrorists, if and when necessary.
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