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The state-run Anatolia news agency reported that Turkish warplanes and attack helicopters bombed mountain paths used by rebels to cross the porous border from Iraq and stage hit-and-run attacks against soldiers in southeastern Turkey.
Residents in the Iraqi Kurdish village of Derishkit told an Associated Press reporter that two Turkish jet fighters struck a target on the banks of the Zey-Gowra River about four miles inside Iraq. They were unable to offer any more details about the apparent attack.
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It's finally happened. Does Turkey have a right to defend itself? Or should it rely on the international community to stop Kurdish incursion into Turkey?
Given that the international community including the US, has pretty turned a blind to the hit and run attacks that has been going on for some time, I think Turkey may have a case in its decision to unilaterally take action. The Kurds livings in north of Iraq have created an autonomous region where national Iraqi government or law enforcement has little or no jurisdiction.
But before we discuss Turkey's right to take action, we must answer a bigger question of whether Kurds in Turkey, Iraq and the rest of the region have the right to fight for an independent state. Here is some history about the Kurdish people from Wikipedia.
