Turkey's patience running out after rebel attack
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President Abdullah Gul warned Kurdish rebels on Thursday that Turkey's patience was running out after Turkish forces said they had repelled a guerrilla attack near the Iraqi border.
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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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ANKARA, Turkey  -- Separatist Kurdish rebels attacked a military unit near Turkey's border with Iraq and Iran on Sunday, killing at least nine Turkish soldiers, the state-run Anatolia news agency reported.
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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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Turkish airstrikes and artillery have hit more than 200 Kurdish rebel targets in northern Iraq since Dec. 16, killing hundreds of insurgents, the military said Tuesday.
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ANKARA, Turkey - Attack helicopters buzzed over a hilly region in southeastern Turkey yesterday looking for Kurdish rebels after troops reportedly killed 15 separatist guerrillas in a morning operation far from the increasingly tense border with Iraq.
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Turkey said Sunday that it was weighing an escalation of its fight against Kurdish rebels after the guerillas killed seven Turkish soldiers and a village guard.
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Turkey is navigating a treacherous path between the forces that want to pull it closer toward Islam and the institutions that safeguard its secularism.
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UN forces hold off a rebel advance in the wake of a failed offensive by government forces.
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Turkey's leaders are coming under severe public pressure to act against Kurdish rebels, after an attack on troops.
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Turks feel the world's concern about Kurdish PKK rebel attacks is long overdue, the BBC's Sarah Rainsford reports.
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TUNCELI, Turkey  - Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan called crisis talks that may authorize a cross-border military offensive after Kurdish rebels killed at least 12 Turkish soldiers in an ambush on Sunday near the Iraqi border.
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DIYARBAKIR, Turkey  - Turkey's prime minister on Saturday visited victims of a bomb that killed five people in the mainly Kurdish city of Diyarbakir and said the attack proved the desperation of Kurdish PKK separatist rebels.
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Turkey on Monday called on Iraq to clamp down on armed Turkish Kurd rebels who have sought refuge across the border, as visiting Iraqi President Ghazi al-Yawar warned Ankara against interfering in its internal affairs.
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TUNCELI, Turkey  - Kurdish rebels killed at least 12 Turkish soldiers and wounded 11 others on Sunday in an ambush in mountains near the Iraqi border, security sources said.
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Turkey's foreign minister rejected any cease-fire by Kurdish rebels Tuesday as he met with Iraqi leaders in Baghdad to press them to crack down on the guerrillas. Turkish forces massed on the border and tensions rose over a threatened military incursion.
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Turkey's foreign minister said on Thursday his country would not hesitate to act against Kurdish rebels waging deadly attacks against its troops and warned them against testing its resolve.