10/19 (HUFFPOST): Turkey and the Rebel Kurds: Next Move "President Bush's response to the Turkish Parliament's declaration of war against the 3,000+ rebels of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in oil-rich northern Iraq was muted because the United States needs Turkey. The Kurdish administration in northern Iraq seems unable to control the small number of PKK separatists, while labeling in advance any Turkish forays to strike at PKK camps as a violation of Iraqi sovereignty. Such forays would immensely complicate the war in Iraq... Turkey's economic needs might give it pause. ..." 10/19/07 Blog on Huffington Post, John Tepper Marlin.