Turkey masses more troops, raids in Iraq confirmed
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CIZRE, Turkey  - Turkish warplanes and troops attacked Kurdish rebels inside Iraq this week, security sources said on Wednesday, but Ankara wants to hold back from any major incursion for now and give diplomacy a chance.
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CIZRE, Turkey  - Turkish warplanes and troops attacked Kurdish rebels inside Iraq this week, security sources said on Wednesday, but Ankara wants to hold back from any major incursion for now to give diplomacy a chance.
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Dozens of Turkish military vehicles loaded with soldiers and heavy weapons rumbled toward the Iraq border on today after an ambush by guerrilla Kurds that killed 12 soldiers and left eight others missing
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CAIRO, Dec. 26 -- Turkish warplanes on Wednesday bombed suspected Kurdish rebel bases in northern Iraq for at least the third time in the past 10 days, while the Bush administration urged Turkey to act with restraint in its intensified cross-border offensive against the guerrillas.
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HABUR, Turkey  - Turkish helicopters ferried more troops to the border with Iraq on Friday as diplomatic efforts got underway in Ankara to avert a major offensive against Kurdish guerrillas based in northern Iraq.
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WASHINGTON - Turkey's parliament voted overwhelmingly yesterday to authorize the nation's military forces to invade northern Iraq to hunt for Kurdish rebels.
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The American military presence in Iraq will grow by nearly 12,000 troops by next month, to 150,000, the highest level since the invasion last year, to
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Turkey denied a report on Wednesday it  had launched a major incursion into northern Iraq to crush  Kurdish rebels, but a military source said troops had conducted  a limited raid across the mountainous border.
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Georgia announces that it will more than double the number of its troops fighting as part of the US-coalition in Iraq.
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Turkey said dozens of its warplanes bombed Kurdish rebel targets as deep as 60 miles inside northern Iraq for three hours Sunday, the largest aerial attack in years against the outlawed separatist group
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Turkey said dozens of its warplanes bombed Kurdish rebel targets as deep as 60 miles inside northern Iraq for three hours Sunday, the largest aerial attack in years against the outlawed separatist group. Turkey's military chief said the U.S. gave intelligence and tacit approval for the raid.
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The Turkish army sent soldiers about 1.5 miles into northern Iraq in an overnight operation on Tuesday, Kurdish officials said
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ISTANBUL, Jun 19 (IPS) - Turkey is beefing up military preparedness against  Iraq-based Kurdish rebels as a prelude to a possible cross-border  incursion that is opposed by the United States, European Union  and the Iraqi government.
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Turkish aircraft carried out a fresh attack on positions of the separatist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in northern Iraq on Saturday, the Turkish army said on its website.
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Turkish warplanes struck some 70 Kurdish guerrilla targets in northern Iraq on Monday in the latest in a series of strikes, the General Staff said.
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TUNCELI, Turkey  - Turkish warplanes bombed important Kurdish guerrilla targets in northern Iraq on Saturday in a new cross-border offensive, the General Staff said.