Turkish troops cross into Iraq to pursue PKK
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ARBIL, Iraq  - Turkish troops crossed into northern Iraq overnight and carried out a small-scale operation against Kurdish separatists, the Turkish army said on Tuesday.
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SULAIMANIYA/ANKARA  - Turkish warplanes bombed Kurdish guerrilla targets in northern Iraq on Wednesday in their fourth such cross-border raid in five days, Turkey's general staff said on Wednesday.
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ANKARA (BBC News) - Turkish parliamentarians are due to debate a motion authorizing cross-border military operations into northern Iraq to target Kurdish rebel bases there. Parliament in Ankara is expected to approve the motion by a large majority amid widespread public support for military action against the PKK.  Attacks blamed on the rebels have been escalating inside Turkey in a conflict which dates back more than two decades.  But the U.S. is anxious that Turkish action could destabilize northern Iraq. It is also embroiled in a row with Turkey over a Congressional vote to recognize the mass killing of Armenians in Ottoman times as genocide.  Turkey is a regional hub for the U.S. military, and some suggest access to Incirlik airbase or other supply lines crucial to U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan could be affected by the row.
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In an effort to root out Kurdish separatist guerrillas Turkey is stepping up its presence along its border of Iraq.
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Turkey continued to bolster its forces at the Iraqi border after an ambush that left at least 12 Turkish soldiers dead and touched off an escalation in tensions.
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The Turkish military defends air strikes and a ground incursion into Iraq to target alleged PKK rebel positions.
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ANKARA/SULAIMANIYA  - Turkish warplanes bombed Kurdish guerrilla targets in northern Iraq on Wednesday, Turkey's general staff said, in the fourth such cross-border raid in five days.
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ANKARA, Turkey  -- Turkish troops have shelled suspected Kurdish rebel positions in Iraq, a government official said Wednesday, as military and civilian leaders were expected to discuss the scope and duration of a cross-border incursion.
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Turkish military steps up operations close to the border with Iraq by deploying warships and helicopters.
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DAHUK, Iraq  - Three PKK soldiers emerge from an orchard and stride up a road in northern Iraq. Locals in a passing pick-up truck offer them a lift and they clamber in, just a few hundred meters (yards) from a police checkpoint.
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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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The U.S. 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.
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Two U.S. jets appear to have crossed into Turkish airspace over the border with Iraq inadvertently, a U.S. Embassy official said Monday, adding that the incursion was under investigation.
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BAGHDAD - An audacious cross-border ambush by Kurdish rebels based in northern Iraq killed at least 17 Turkish soldiers yesterday, ratcheting up pressure on the Turkish government to launch a military offensive into Iraq.
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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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Turkey has sent large contingents of reinforcement soldiers, tanks and armored personnel carriers to its border with Iraq
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Turkish warplanes bombed  important Kurdish guerrilla targets in northern Iraq on  Saturday in a new cross-border offensive, the General Staff  said.