Ankara overwhelmingly approved, by a vote of 507-19, a possible cross-border offensive against Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq. The Turkish government seems willing though to allow diplomatic pressure to be applied as well by the U.S.-backed Iraqi administration.
If the Turkish military enter Iraq, they will have a one-year time-table.
The rebels of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, has provoked the incursion by Turkey because they have killed Turkish troops and Turkey maintains that the PKK has entered Turkish territory.
President Bush opposes Turkish plans to possibly send a massive number of troops into Iraq.
Bush said Turkey has stationed troops in Iraq "for quite a while."
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan opposed Bush's comments by stating: "What's important is the parliament's decision, not what people say."
Last week the U.S. Congress agreed to a resolution labeling the World War 1-era killing of up to 1.5 million Armenians by the Turks as genocide
Bush stated: "One thing Congress should not be doing is sorting out the historical record of the Ottoman Empire."