Reply #10: Keep in mind

[14thColony]

that 'the Kurds' in this case are not Iraqi Kurds. The PKK is made up of about 70% Turkish Kurds and 30% Syrian Kurds, and launch daily cross-border attacks from their safe havens in northern Iraq into southeast Turkey, or (using their "Freedom Falcons") all the way to Istanbul. While I acknowledge that decades of Turkish policies towards their Kurdish minority basically caused this problem, the fact is that the PKK is a vicious, well-funded insurgent army that is willing to dabble in terrorism when it suits them, and has directly or indirectly caused over 30,000 deaths on both sides since the early 1980s. At some point it was inevitable that the Turks would have to say 'enough's enough.' Not that bombing will elimiate the PKK - the Turks launched massive ground operations in the 1990s against these camps, yet there's still a PKK today.