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Turkey is risking ties to the U.S. and Europe for a simple reason: its eyes are on the eastern front.
Iraqi law stops at a small checkpoint at the base of the Qandil Mountains, 40 kilometers short of the Turkish border. The little post is manned by a handful of Iraqi Kurdish fighters loyal -- officially, at least -- to the government in Baghdad. Beyond, up an unpaved track, is a no-man's land controlled by outlaw groups of Kurdish guerrillas who have used the rugged tangle of peaks to launch attacks inside Turkey, which have left more than 95 Turkish troops dead this year alone.
But if Turkey has its way, Qandil won't be bandit country for much longer. ...