By Callimachus
The Middle East this morning faces many possible next steps to Hell. Certainly one of them is a flare-up of fighting between Turks and Kurds, which would take place in a region Michael has criss-crossed several times and written about eloquently.
Now it looks like that possible next step is a step closer. Here’s the AP version:
Turkey said Sunday that it was weighing an escalation of its fight against Kurdish rebels after the guerillas killed seven Turkish soldiers and a village guard.
The outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, wants autonomy for Turkey’s Kurdish-dominated southeast. Its Saturday ambush, which Turkish officials said was launched from neighboring northern Iraq, drove the number of Turks it has killed since Thursday to 13.
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan expressed outrage, signaling that Turkey could step up its battle against the rebel group. And high-ranking military, civilian, police and intelligence officials held an emergency meeting of Turkey’s High Anti-Terrorism Council to discuss possible new measures against the guerrillas.
Here’s the Al Jazeera version.
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