No Turkish offensive inside Kurdistan – source

SULAIMANIYA / IraqiNews.com: A Kurdish official on Thursday ruled out that the Turkish army was preparing to wage an attack on the region to track down members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). “The situation in Turkey in general is not prepared for an operation like this,” Jabbar Yawer, the spokesman for the Iraqi Kurdistan protection forces, told IraqiNews.com news agency. “There are demands from within Turkey and the international community that the Turkish government should solve the Kurdish problem peacefully,” he added. MH (P)/AmR 1