BY NORM DIXON

US troops opened fire on Turkish Kurd rebels aligned to the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), the BBC reported on November 11.

A US military spokesperson said “unknown forces” were “dispersed” near Iraq's border with Turkey with the assistance of US Apache attack helicopters.

The BBC reported that Turkey and the US have agreed to an “action plan to eradicate the PKK”, which is thought to have about 5000 members living in northern Iraq.

The PKK has fought a bitter struggle for national liberation for more than a decade in response to Turkey's oppression of the country's Kurdish minority.

From Green Left Weekly, November 19, 2003.
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