More on the Turkish Incursion
Iraqi Kurdish officials on Friday ordered 6,000 Kurdish militiamen to take up new positions in Iraq's Dohuk province as hundreds of Turkish troops crossed the border in what Turkey said was an attack on Kurdish rebels who'd sought shelter there.
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Friday's incursion came after a Turkish aerial and artillery bombardment on Kurdish targets that destroyed at least five bridges and one day after peshmerga forces confronted Turkish troops who'd moved to seize two highways in Dohuk in tanks and armed personnel carriers. The peshmerga forced the Turks to return to one of the five bases that Turkey has maintained in Iraq since 1997 and then surrounded the base. Peshmerga commanders told the Turks that they would open fire if the Turks attempted to move off the base.
This could get messy.
