Turkey Mulls Iraq Ground Action Amid IS Threat.

Turkey’s foreign minister says Ankara will consider all military options — “including ground operations” — if developments in Iraq deteriorate to the extent that they threaten Turkey’s security.

The minister, Mevlut Cavusoglu, told private broadcaster “24 TV” on Tuesday that Turkey would use its international right to quell threats from the Islamic State group and Kurdish militants in Iraq.

He says that “if the threat against us” increases, “we will use our power … to end the threat against us and that is our most natural right.”

Cavusoglu in televised comments the day before said the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party or PKK is crossing into Turkey from Iraq and coordinating attacks.

Ankara will likely use ISIS again as a smokescreen for bombing the Kurds, and perhaps to increase their military presence in northern Iraq.