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Article: WHAT WOULD ATATURK DO ON IRAQ INCURSION?(Editorial)(Editorial)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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- October 30, 2007
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Byline: Bridget Johnson
'I am not ordering you to attack; I am ordering you to die," Mustafa Kemal Ataturk is quoted as telling his troops in the 1915 battle of Gallipoli.
So seems the motto of Kurdish rebels who keep ambushing Turkish soldiers on the Iraqi border, racking up a Turkish body count of 42 in the last month as well as kidnapping eight soldiers.
The Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, has embraced a death wish.
Tanks have massed along the Iraqi border, just waiting for the word go. On Oct. 17, the Turkish parliament voted 507-19 in favor of going into Iraq to rout the PKK. And just days ago, Gen. Yasar Buyukanit said, "We are determined to make ...