http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUKL0922793720070709?src=070907_1206_TOPSTORY_civil_war_threats
For those advocating a "chop it up into three countries" solution for Iraq, this would be one of about thousand reasons it would never work. My only hope is that if they do push across the border they'll all look like that fat sloppy guard from Midnight Express.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The Turkish army has 140,000 soldiers along its border with northern Iraq as part of a "great mobilization", Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshiyar Zebari said on Monday.
Turkey's armed forces have urged its government to allow an incursion into neighboring, mainly Kurdish, northern Iraq to crush up to 4,000 Turkish Kurdish militants who use the region as a base to attack security and civilian targets inside Turkey.
Rumors of a possible Turkish incursion have rattled financial markets and have drawn warnings from the United States, Ankara's NATO ally, to stay out of Iraq.
"There is a great mobilization on Iraq's northern international border that the security services and intelligence (agencies) estimate at more than 140,000 military personnel with all sorts of equipment," Zebari told a news conference.
Asked to confirm the number, Zebari, who is himself a Kurd, said it was 140,000.
While Turkey has not said how many troops had been sent to the border, it had been believed to be in the tens of thousands.