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Better known for her tabloid love affairs, plastic surgery and husky voice, transsexual Turkish diva Bulent Ersoy makes the unlikeliest political activist. Yet she has caused a storm of outrage by becoming the only public personality to speak out against Turkey's invasion of northern Iraq. So pervasive is the nationalist climate that Ersoy has been vilified for declaring - on a national TV equivalent of American Idol, where she is a judge - that if she had a son, she would not have sent him to fight this war. She is now under investigation for being "anti-military...
...Turkish government seemed unmoved by the Iraqi cabinet's statement on Tuesday condemning Turkey's incursion as a "violation of Iraqi sovereignty" and a "unilateral military action." The Turkish military sent ground troops into northern Iraq last Thursday to take on guerrillas of the Kurdistan Workers' Party...
...face of mounting pressure from the American and Iraqi governments, a Turkish envoy in Baghdad said on Wednesday that Turkey would continue military operations in northern Iraq until it was satisfied it had destroyed the bases of Kurdish guerillas. "Our objective is clear, our mission is clear and there is no timetable," said Ahmet Davutoglu, an adviser to the Turkish prime minister, at a Baghdad news conference. He was in Iraq for meetings with American and Iraqi officials, including the Iraqi foreign minister and U.S. commander David Petraeus...
...similar drama played out in December, when the Turkish government responded to PKK attacks with a series of air strikes in northern Iraq. But the scale of this month's fighting, along with Turkey's use of significant ground forces, has provoked a more serious crisis. Several thousand Turkish troops have entered several miles into northern Iraq, and with reinforcements moving south through Turkey the operation does not seem to be winding down. According the Turkish military's website 24 of its soldiers and 230 PKK guerrillas have been killed since the operation began...
...that diffusing the crisis in Kurdistan was now at the top of his agenda. He told reporters that "it's very important that the Turks make this operation as short as possible and then leave. They have to be mindful of Iraqi sovereignty." And, putting a U.S. timetable on Turkish operations for the first time, Gates said, "I measure quick in terms of days, a week or two, something like that, not months...