Kurdish rebel commander warns Turkey against attacks on Iraqi region
Murat Karayilan, head of the armed wing of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, has warned Turkey it would encounter tough resistance and a dragged-out, Vietnam-style conflict, if it launched a large-scale offensive against the Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq.
An aggressive incursion by the US ally into Iraq would prompt the rebels to retaliate with protracted and bloody attacks, said Karayilan on Saturday. ''Iraq's Kurds will not support the Turkish army,'' he said. ''If Turkey starts its attack, we will swing the Turkish public opinion by political, civil and military struggle.'' (AP)
