*shrug* what do you expect? It is open season in the ME and everyone's a target or potential target by everyone else. Israel is off hunting in Lebanon and Gazza with an eye on Syria and Iran, who are both planning or intending who knows what - perhaps nothing - Saudia Arabia is busy repressing its own people, Pakistan and India are preoccupied with each other and Kashmir, Afghanistan is a disaster, and the US Military is so helplessly bogged down in Iraq that it still cannont get all of its own people out of Lebanon even though its right next door, as is the West which cannot even agree on what to do over Lebanon or how to enforce any measures like an enforced cease fire.
Turkey, if you'll recall, was a major regional power in its own rights in the not so distant Ottoman empire, still retains considerable military power, has a real beef of its own with the Kurds, and covets the rich oil fields in their region which would be a huge boon to the Turkish economy. What better time to find, or manufacture, a pretext for an incursion into Kurdish Iraq and who is going to stop them?
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