Turkey boosts troops at Iraqi border: sources
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DIYARBAKIR, Turkey  - Turkey's army has boosted troop levels in the restive southeast to more than 200,000, most of them stationed along the border with Iraq, security sources told Reuters on Friday.
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A group of Turkish troops enter northern Iraq, local officials say, after warning against Kurdish rebels there.
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TUNCELI, Turkey  - Kurdish rebels killed 12 Turkish soldiers in an ambush on Sunday near the Iraqi border, forcing Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan to call crisis talks that may authorize a cross-border military offensive.
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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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SIRNAK, Turkey  - Turkish Cobra helicopters pounded Kurdish rebel positions near the Iraqi border on Tuesday and Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan reaffirmed Ankara's readiness to send troops over the frontier despite U.S. opposition.
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Turkey's parliament resoundingly approved a motion on Wednesday allowing troops to cross into northern Iraq to hunt down Kurdish rebels there, but its Western allies and Baghdad urged Ankara to refrain from military action.
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Turkey is considering a ground operation against Kurdish rebels based in northern Iraq, private broadcaster CNN Turk quoted Foreign Minister Ali Babacan as saying on Tuesday.
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Turkey's air strikes against Kurdish rebels in Iraq had advance approval from the US, Turkey's military says.
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Turkish leaders lent extra weight Thursday to their threat of a military incursion against Kurdish separatists holed up in northern Iraq, as an Iraqi delegation arrived in Ankara for crisis talks.
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Turkey confirmed Monday that eight soldiers were missing after clashes with Kurdish separatists, ramping up public pressure on the government to strike rebel bases in northern Iraq despite US opposition.
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BAGHDAD, Dec. 23 -- Turkish warplanes bombarded areas of northern Iraq for the second straight day Sunday, according to an Iraqi Kurdish official, as part of Turkey's ongoing campaign to combat Kurdish guerrillas living in the mountainous border region.
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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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Separatist Kurdish rebels killed at least 12 Turkish soldiers and wounded 17 more in Hakkari Province near Turkey's border with Iraq and Iran on Sunday, a Turkish government source told CNN.
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A top Iraqi official said today the country would "actively help" Turkey halt the activity of Kurdish rebels who have been striking across the border from northern Iraq, a promise delivered amid a flurry of international diplomatic efforts to prevent a widening conflict between the two countries.
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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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Nine Turkish soldiers were  killed overnight in a clash with Kurdish rebels near the Iraqi  border, military sources said on Sunday, in an attack that will  increase pressure on Turkey to send troops into Iraq.
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The United States is providing Turkey with real-time intelligence that has helped the Turkish military target a series of attacks this month against Kurdish separatists holed up in northern Iraq, including a large airstrike on Sunday, according to Pentagon officials.