Slate trifecta on Turkey and Kurds

Turkey: Not a good ally
http://slate.msn.com/id/2079633/

How the Kurds are screwed, part 1
http://slate.msn.com/id/2079592/

How the Kurds are screwed, part 2
http://slate.msn.com/id/2079649/

In the Feb. 27 Washington Post, Philip P. Pan and Daniel Williams report that the United States has agreed to let up to 40,000 Turkish troops into Northern Iraq (this according to a Turkish government official). According to Owen Matthews and Babak Dehghanpisheh in Newsweek, that's a low-ball. They put the number of troops the United States will allow into Northern Iraq at 80,000 and say that the Turks may be allowed to proceed as many as 270 kilometers into Iraq, which is "nearly the whole of Iraqi Kurdistan." Reportedly, another part of the U.S. agreement with Turkey is to disarm Kurdish troops when the war against Iraq is over.
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But another view is emerging that the Turks will keep coming into northern Iraq even if U.S. troops launch their invasion from somewhere else.
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