2008 Turkish incursion into northern Iraq day of the operation, Turkish President Abdullah Gül made a telephone call to Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, himself a Kurd, to brief him on the details of the incursion. He also invited Talabani to come to Turkey. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he called Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on the night the ground operation began, and later U.S. President George W. Bush. The United States was guarded in its response to the incursion, requesting that Turkey take care to only target the PKK, to "limit the scope and duration of their operations," and to work with Iraqi
Recep İvedik 2 Recep İvedik 2 Recep İvedik 2 is a 2009 Turkish comedy film, directed by Togan Gökbakar, which stars Şahan Gökbakar as an oafish character who tries to find a job and a wife to please his ailing grandmother. The film, which went on nationwide general release across Turkey on Feb. 13, 2009, was the highest grossing Turkish film of 2009. The film's titular comic character was created by Şahan Gökbakar for his Turkish comedy television show "Dikkat Şahan Çıkabilir", which ran from 2005 to 2006, and has subsequently gone on to feature in a series of sequel films starting with