ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey's parliament resoundingly approved a motion on Wednesday allowing troops to cross into northern Iraq to hunt down Kurdish rebels there, but its Western allies and Baghdad urged Ankara to refrain from military action.
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And we know what happens when a congress approves a "use of force" resolution.
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Iraq's government said on Wednesday it would send a team to Ankara for further talks to find a peaceful solution to the crisis. NATO and the European Union also urged restraint.
Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan has played down expectations of any imminent attack but the parliamentary vote gives NATO's second biggest army the legal basis to cross the mountainous border as and when it sees fit.
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So, in other words, our guys are gonna have to deal with another player in the insurgency "as and when Turkey sees fit" to engage the Kurds. We have a clusterfuck over there already. What's worse than a clusterfuck? Because that's what we're gonna have if this comes to pass.
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