PKK fears strike on bases: Report
Friday, November 9, 2007 <http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=88106#> ANKARA - AFP http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=88106 The outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) fears an imminent <http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=88106#> Turkish air strike on its bases in northern Iraq following U.S. pledges to help <http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=88106#> Turkey combat the separatist group, a pro-PKK news agency reported yesterday. U.S. surveillance planes have been <http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=88106#> flying over PKK camps in the Kandil mountains near the Iranian border for the past four days, focusing on locations where PKK commanders are based, the Fýrat news agency quoted sources close to the PKK as saying. "It is believed that an air strike is imminent," said the agency, considered a PKK mouthpiece. "It is reported that the PKK is increasing its <http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=88106#> counter-measures and will respond strongly in case of an attack." "The PKK has written to the U.S. authorities in Iraq and asked them to stop the over flights and avoid any steps that could lead to instability," the agency reported on its Web site. Nothing in the Fýrat report could be independently confirmed. After talks with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoðan Monday, President George W. Bush pledged to provide Ankara with "real-time" intelligence on PKK movements, calling the PKK a "common enemy." Analysts say a large-scale Turkish incursion into northern Iraq is unlikely, but see Bush's promises of intelligence support as tacit U.S. approval for limited Turkish strikes on PKK targets. Ankara said Tuesday that it retains the military option in northern Iraq, where the PKK has long taken refuge. Iraqi Kurdish authorities, who run a virtually autonomous administration in northern Iraq, have stepped up measures restricting PKK movements, setting up checkpoints on roads leading to PKK camps, Firat reported. "Only villagers who live in those areas are allowed to travel freely," it said. Iraq said at the weekend that the government and the Kurdish authorities in northern Iraq were enacting measures to curb the PKK, including new checkpoints. Iraqi Kurds are expected to condone a possible Turkish strike, "showing once again that (they) are part of this plan" against the PKK, Firat said. Turkey has accused the Iraqi Kurds of tolerating and aiding the PKK, but they have come under U.S. pressure to act against the separatists to head off a large-scale Turkish incursion. Tensions along the Turkish-Iraqi border increased after Oct. 21, when the PKK ambushed a military unit, killing 12 soldiers and capturing eight. The captives were released Sunday. 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