Pro-Goverment Kurdish villagers chant slogans and wave Turkish flags during a demonstration in Gorumlu village of Sirnak, at the Turkish-Iraqi border, south-eastern Turkey. Turkey is not satisfied with the proposals Baghdad submitted at crisis talks here Friday to tackle Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq and wants more urgent measures, the foreign ministry said.(AFP/Mustafa Ozer)

Turkey demanded PKK extraditions which would not happen and so Turkey rejected Iraq's PKK offer which was indeed nothing- basically and literally nothing.

 In the mean time, US delays Armenia vote. A pending crisis. Ms Pelosi will wait for the killing time.

Iraq's Defence Minister Abdel Qader Mohammed Jassim (C) leaves a hotel to meet Turkish Foreign Affairs officials in Ankara. Iraqi ministers have held crisis talks in Ankara seeking to persuade an increasingly impatient Turkey against launching military strikes against rebel Kurd bases in northern Iraq.(AFP/Adem Altan)

Northern Iraqi leaders, especially Barzani, are not helpful. He continues to increase the regional tension. It seems that US won't offer any tangible help, then comes the  war....

There are threats from the Iraqi side:  Iraq To Turkey: If You Impose Economic Embargo We Will Respond By Shutting Down Oil Pipe To Turkey and there are Massive Anti-PKK Rallies in Turkey, As Tension And Anger Grow. Rice continues to bully Turkey: Turkey Should Not Intervene In Northern Iraq; U.S. Will Do Whatever necessary and of course the US government won't care for PM Erdogan's Response. Turkey has lost her charm to win it back, she will have to use force. Despite all the human heritage, some things can only be resolved by force. A gang of murderers, PKK - only the naive romantic Western activists can believe that it is a national liberation movement- are harbored, and basically nothing is done about it. ...

Well then, unfortunately it is time to move.... 

Cartoon In Saudi Paper On Turkey's Cross-Border Operations In Northern Iraq

Source: Al-Watan, Saudi Arabia, October 26, 2007

Cartoon In UAE Paper On Turkey-Northern Iraq Situation

On sign pointing right: "Iraq." On sign pointing left: "Turkey."

Source: Al-Bayan, UAE, October 24, 2007 VIA

PKK and the Armenian Genocide Resolution: U.S.-Turkish Relations at a Critical Juncture

By Soner Cagaptay October 23, 2007 On October 21, Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) operatives carried out an attack from northern Iraq into Turkey, killing twelve Turkish soldiers. This incident followed the killing of more than thirty people in recent weeks, including an incident in which the PKK pulled a dozen civilians off a public bus and shot them. The Turkish public has responded to the attacks by calling for incursion into northern Iraq to eliminate PKK camps there."....

Beyond suspicion: rethinking U.S.-Turkish relations

Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (USA), October 19, 2007

Ian Lesser

Interview with Recep Tayyip Erdogan in full

New 'strategic partner' outside; familiar power struggle inside…

Cengiz ÇANDAR

Best not to underestimate Turkey

Semih İDİZ

International atmosphere changing in favor of Turkey

Murat YETKİN

PKK is using al-Qaeda's strategy

University students holding posters with pictures of the slain 12 Turkish chant nationalist slogans in Istanbul, Turkey, Friday, Oct. 26, 2007, during a protest against the separatist Kurdish rebel group of PKK. A high-level Iraqi delegation met with Turkish officials in Ankara to try to defuse tensions over Kurdish rebels based in northern Iraq. 'Martyrs never die! The nation will never be divided! You are in our hearts' read on the posters. (AP Photo / Murad Sezer)

Amerikan Turk: Turkish Protesters: "We are all soldiers. We are enough for the U.S."

Strong words! Are we on a path towards "Metal Firtina? (Metal Storm)? Highly doubtful, but I see that coordination and joint training between Turkish and Iranian counter-insurgency commandos has caught the attention of the US and Israel. It's hard to fathom that one of the "Axis of Evil" is also fighting Kurdish terrorism, and also losing many soldiers in the fight. Nobody cares. No one reports on Iranian casualties, especially since the Iranian Guard has been labeled as a terrorist group recently. That would mean that Turkish forces are terrorists too, if they are working together.. What's next?