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A Pentagon plan would use reconnaissance aircraft to spy for the Turkish military in its cross-border war against terrorists in northern Iraq, CBS News national security correspondent David Martin reports exclusively.Until now the U.S. Military, which has...
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World leaders may have spent all week urging restraint — but the reality is that Turkish troops are already well inside Iraq.The Daily Telegraph yesterday witnessed Turkey's military presence, including tanks, 12 miles inside Kurdish northern Ir...
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Turkey's powerful National Security Council (MGK) said on Wednesday it had recommended that the government take economic action against groups helping separatist Kurdish rebels based in northern Iraq.The call from the MGK, comprising political leaders...
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Turkish warplanes and helicopters have been bombing Kurdish separatist positions along the Iraqi-Turkish frontier amid continuing diplomatic efforts to avert a major cross-border incursion by Turkish military forces. Aerial strikes had been going on since...
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The White House on Wednesday urged restraint as Turkey conducted raids into northern Iraq against Kurdish rebels."We are concerned about the continuing skirmishes that are happening up there and the terrorist attacks that are being lodged by the PKK ...
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Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki says his country is shutting down the offices of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, and will not allow the group to operate in Iraq.In a statement, Mr. Maliki said the group is a terrorist organization. He said ...
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Turkish diplomatic and military plans were being put into action simultaneously today as commando units were airlifted towards northern Iraq while the country's Foreign Minister arrived in Baghdad for crisis talks.Ali Babacan's visit is designed t...
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Turkey's government came under increasing pressure to launch a military assault on Kurdish militants in northern Iraq, after eight Turkish soldiers went missing during an attack by the group near the Iraqi border.Thousands of Turks took to the streets...
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News that eight Turkish soldiers are missing after the latest clash with Kurdish PKK guerrillas is likely only to increase the domestic pressure on the Turkish authorities to take action against rebel bases in northern Iraq.Twelve Turkish soldiers also di...
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Eight Turkish soldiers were still missing Monday, the military said, after the ambush by Kurdish militants that killed at least 12 soldiers and touched off a major escalation in Turkey-Iraq tensions."Despite all search efforts," the military sai...
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The United States continued efforts today to steer Turkey away from a military incursion into northern Iraq, after a cross-border raid by Kurdish rebels on Sunday killed 17 Turkish soldiers and raised the prospect of an escalating conflict.In addition to ...
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Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called on the U.S. to take "speedy steps" towards cracking down on Kurdish separatists accused of launching attacks across the Turkish border from northern Iraq.Erdogan said he had spoken to U.S. S...
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Turkey is ready to pay whatever price is needed to defeat Kurdish rebels based in northern Iraq, the president's office said on Sunday."While respecting the territorial integrity of Iraq, Turkey will not shy away from paying whatever price is nec...
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Iraq's president, a Kurd, ordered Kurdish guerrillas Sunday to lay down their arms or leave Iraq after the rebels ambushed a military unit near Turkey's border, killing 12 soldiers and increasing pressure on the Turkish government to stage a cross...
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At least 12 Turkish soldiers and 32 PKK rebels have been killed in clashes in Hakkari region near the border with Iraq. The attack comes days after Turkey's parliament authorised the military to launch cross-border incursions into Iraq to hunt rebels ...
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Turkish legislators authorized the use of military force against Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq, a step that may further damage Iraqi security and disrupt oil supplies.The assembly in Turkey's capital Ankara backed the motion by 507 votes to 19, Parl...
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Less than three months after 20 pro-Kurdish MPs entered the Turkish parliament in the July 22 general election, hopes that their presence in the assembly would create a platform for a solution to the 23-year-old insurgency by the Kurdistan Workers’ ...
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Turkey’s most senior general warned on Sunday that military ties with the US would be severely damaged if the House of Representatives adopted a resolution labelling the massacre of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire as genocide. The warning comes amid...
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The government of Iraqi Kurdistan said it was committed to stopping cross border attacks by Kurdish separatists against Turkey but called for a political solution amid Turkish threats to invade its neighbour.Nechirvan Barzani, Prime Minister of Iraq's...
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Two senior U.S. officials promised Saturday that they would convey to Iraq Turkey's unease over Kurdish rebels in the north but they also expressed concern over the possibility of a Turkish military offensive in the region.In Moscow, Secretary of Stat...