SALAHADDIN, IRAQ: The Turkish woops are fighting in the Kurdishrun enclave in northern Iraq set up last year at U.S. urging to protect the Kurds who had rebelled against the Iraqi govt. of President Saddam Hussein Turkey views that enclaves as a threat because it has given Iraqi Kurds effective autonomy and could stimulate longstanding demands for similar independence by the 13 million Turkish Kurds in southeastern Turkey
Article extracted from this publication >> November 6, 1992
