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ISTANBUL, TURKEY — Turkey’s premier indicated Tuesday that an offensive against Kurdish rebels based in northern Iraq would not immediately follow the expected go-ahead from Parliament, as oil prices soared amid global calls for restraint.
The Iraqi government urged Turkey not to send troops across the border to pursue separatist Kurds in mountain hideouts, calling for “a diplomatic solution” to tensions that have raised fears of a new front in the Iraq war.
Tareq al-Hashemi, one of Iraq’s two vice presidents, flew to Ankara and met with Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and other Turkish officials before a Parliament vote today that is expected to authorize cross-border attacks.
