Kurd rebels to Turkey: avoid “strategic mistake”
With Turkey massing troops on its border with Iraq, a key leader of Kurdish separatists said a cross-border attack would be a “strategic mistake” and called for talks to end more than two decades of fighting. Abdul Rahman Chaderchi, a senior official of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), said a strike into northern Iraq would unite Kurds on either side of the border against Turkey and bring Turkish troops face-to-face with U.S. forces stationed in northern Iraq. Full Story