Turkey Pushes Ahead

clipped from www.reuters.com Turkish PM to ask approval for Iraq incursion ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey's prime minister will ask parliament to authorize a military push into north Iraq to fight Kurdish rebels amid Turkish anger on Thursday at a U.S. vote branding Ottoman Turk killings of Armenians genocide. Analysts say a large Turkish cross-border incursion remains unlikely, but Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan's government will seek authorization for it after a public holiday which ends on Sunday, a ruling party member told Reuters. The United States relies on Turkish bases to supply its war effort in Iraq but the U.S. vote. Any Turkish offensive into north Iraq would seriously strain ties with the United States and possibly hurt Turkey's European Union accession bid. Not a lot new here. Hopefully this is just bluster but if the PKK keep provoking the Turks, who knows? Never get involved in a land war in Asia.