The PKK is now being protected by the US and Iran. Both Iran and the US are advising Turkey against using force to stop the PKK. This wrongheaded advice e is proof positive that Iran and the US are cooperating to bring down Turkey.
Iran and the US are setting a trap for Turkey. Iran and the US want Turkey to take only symbolic actions against the PKK. If Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan takes this advice, the PKK would emerge as a winner from the current crisis, in a huge victory for international terrorism.
In reality, Turkey does not need advice from Condeleeza Rice, who is pro-PKK and pro-Iran. Turkey needs to deal with PKK terrorism in exactly the way that Serbia dealt with Albanian terrorism, or as Russia dealt with Chechen terrorism, or the nineteenth century US deal with Confederate terrorism. In other words, Turkey should announce it will demolish the Kurdish separatist/KKK state in northern Iraq and put Kurdish president Barzani behind bars.
In short, Turkey should announce that its forces will take Kirkuk. Does the US have a problem with Turkish control of Kirkuk? Does President Bush prefer PKK/KKK and Iranian Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) in control of Kirkuk?
If Turkish control of Kirkuk seems an extreme measure, contemplate the Iranian plan for control of Iraq and the Middle East. Iran wants to put terrorists in control of Iraqi oil -- the PKK and Iranian Revolutionary Guards (IRGC). When Iran is finished in Iraq, the PKK and the IRGC will use Iraq as a staging area and treasury to promote instability throughout the region.
Iranian IRGC in Iraq would pose a significant threat to regional security, for three reasons. First, Iran would be able to establish an IRGC overland supply corridor to Hezbollah and Hamas by way of Iraq and Syria. Second, southern Iraq would become a captive IRGC state, much as Manchuko in northern China became a captive state run by the Japanese militarists during WW II. Indeed, the current Iranian ambassador to Iraq, with US approval, is a commanding officer officer of the IRGC's elite Special Operations Forces. His embassy in Baghdad operates as an IRGC headquarters in Iraq.
Third, the IRGC would use Iraqi oil earnings to radicalize Iranian political life and to promote Iran's quest for empire. The IRGC would shift the balance of forces in Iran's political life decisively in its favor, just as the Japanese militarists did in Tokyo did before WW II.
Fourth, after taking Iraq, Iran would be positioned to dominate Saudi Arabia and Persian Gulf oil producers. Iranian-sponsored terrorists would then control all the major oil-producing states of the Middle East -- Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and the UAE.
Turkey can stop this mad Iranian Nazi grab for regional supremacy, backed by the US, but only if Turkey takesa decisive action. The PKK/Kurdish state and Barzani must go!