Double threat to Kurds in Iraq

THE armies of Turkey and Iran are massing troops along the Iraqi-Kurdish borders, threatening to invade the only relatively peaceful area of Iraq.

Their stated reason for such operations is to attack the mountain strongholds of PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party) and PJAK (Kurdistan Free Life Party).

These pro-Kurdish guerrilla armies enjoy widespread popular support throughout the Kurdish regions of south-east Turkey, northern Iraq, north-east Syria and north-east Iran, the Kurdish heartlands, as well as throughout the Kurdish diaspora in Europe.