Friday, February 29, 2008 | Mehmet Ali Birand

Pandora's box has been opened. The creatures that had been kept there for many years have flown out and scattered. They are impossible to catch and return to the box now.

February 28, 2008 | By RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr. and MARK MAZZETTI

BAGHDAD —" Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates urged Turkish leaders on Wednesday to abandon their invasion of guerrilla-controlled lands in the northernmost reaches of Iraq by mid-March.

Thursday, February 28, 2008 | By Ellen Knickmeyer | Washington Post Foreign Service

Did Incursion Just Happen to Coincide With Easing of Ban on Head Scarves?

ANKARA, Turkey, Feb. 27 -- Turkey's military offensive in northern Iraq has clear objectives: attack Kurdish separatist guerrillas in their mountain bases, destroy their camps and weapons caches, and show them they can be pursued anywhere, anytime.

Wednesday, February 27, 2008 | By LOLITA C. BALDOR | The Associated Press

ANKARA, Turkey -- Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Wednesday that Turkey should remove its troops from northern Iraq in the next few days, sending a strong message that U.S. patience is running out on the operation targeting Kurdish insurgents.

Wednesday, February 27, 2008 | Cengiz ÇANDAR

Militarily speaking, the difference between launching a 'security operation' and becoming an 'occupying force' is as thin as a stick

February 26, 2008 | By Aliza Marcus and Andrew Apostolou

ALIZA MARCUS AND ANDREW APOSTOLOU

THE CRISIS between Turkey and Iraq, with the United States playing the uneasy role of mediator and friend to both, has escalated with the Turkish land operation launched Feb. 22. Following last fall's spate of attacks inside Turkey by the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, the Bush administration gave Turkey intelligence to facilitate air strikes against key PKK bases in remote Iraqi Kurdish mountains. Washington hoped this would prevent any Turkish military offensive inside Iraqi Kurdistan, Iraq's most stable region and the PKK's unwilling host. This policy has clearly failed.

February 26, 2008

TURKEY'S current military offensive inside northern Iraq has touched off a crisis - one to which several other players in the region have contributed. Although the ultimate responsibility for ending this crisis falls on Turkey, all of the others, including the United States, must do their part to prevent a larger regional conflagration.

Tuesday, 26 February 2008

The Iraqi government has denounced a Turkish incursion into northern Iraq in some of the strongest terms heard since the operation began last week.

Tuesday, February 26, 2008 | By Sudarsan Raghavan | Washington Post Foreign Service

Turkey Warned Not to Expand Offensive Against Kurdish Rebels

BAGHDAD, Feb. 25 -- Turkish troops and Kurdish guerrillas clashed Monday for the fifth consecutive day in two areas of northern Iraq, the Turkish military said, as senior Iraqi officials warned that a widened and prolonged incursion could lead to serious repercussions for the region.

February 26, 2008 | By Asso Ahmed and Tina Susman, Special to The Times

The fighting between its ally and a Kurdish separatist group it considers a terrorist organization puts the Bush administration in a bind. 'They could do more,' an Iraqi official says.

SHILADEZAH, IRAQ -- Artillery and gunfire echoed through the mountains of northern Iraq on Monday during continued clashes between invading Turkish troops and Kurdish rebels, with Turkey saying that 153 guerrillas had been killed in four days.