Turkish Forces Shelling Iraqi Kurdistan

Whether or not you believe that Turkish forces raided Iraqi Kurdistan last week to attack the PKK, Turkey has in fact attacked in Iraq.

The Iraqi Foreign Ministry sent a letter the Turkish charge' d'affaires in Baghdad, complaining that Turkish forces have shelled in at least two Iraqi Kurdish provinces, disturbed Iraqi Kurds there, and set "huge fires."

Iraqi Kurds are sheltering PKK guerrillas in PKK-only zones across the border from Turkey, so the claims that locals are being disturbed by this shelling are somewhat disingenuous.