"Khan Jghan" is an Iraqi phrase describing a place where everyone gets in and out whenever the feel like it. The origin of these words is Turkish by the way.

Turkey army has launched land offensive into Iraq last night. Turkish television reported, without citing sources, that 10,000 troops had entered Iraqi territory and moved 10 km (6 miles) inside Iraq.

I believe that the Iraqi government did not handle the PKK issue in the proper way. But this does not entitle Turkey to do such a military operation inside Iraq. I think the Iraqi government should have asked the PKK to move out of Iraq whether in Turkey or any where in the world to avoid being in this position.

This action by Turkey shows the world how Turkey does not take the Iraqi government seriously and do not give the space for peaceful solutions to take place. I have before admired the Turkish parliament for not letting the US attack Iraq from the Turkish land in 2003. And I though that this was much braver than the action of any "Arab" land. But this is off the limit now.

And of course the US did not mind that. The US was informed about this attack and, according to Zebari, the Iraqi government was not. This just shows how much the US and Turkey trust the Iraqi Government. They did not inform the Iraqis so the information would not be leaked to the PKK fighters. Thats a lot of trust here, although the Turkish side say that they have informed Washington and Baghdad.

I hope that this operation is periodically as short as the Turkish claimed it would be. And I hope no Iraqi gets hurt in this operation. I mean Iraq has enough turbulences of its own, and we don't need people fighting their own battles on our land (kind of reminds me of Americas fight against Al-Qaeda).