Iraq Kurds warn Turkey on raids
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The leader of Iraq's northern Kurdish region condemns Turkish air strikes, saying innocents have died.
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Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Sunday cautioned Turkey against sending troops into northern Iraq, as it has threatened, to hunt down Kurdish rebels it accuses of carrying out terrorist raids inside Turkey.
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Turkey has warned the United States it could halt cooperation in Iraq after a US offensive last week against insurgents in the northern town of Tal Afar reportedly resulted in the deaths of scores of ethnic Turkoman civilians.
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Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan vowed on Saturday to continue to hit Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) targets in Iraq and criticized EU countries for not cracking down fully on PKK affiliates within the bloc.
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Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshiyar Zebari was quoted on Monday as warning of disastrous regional consequences if Turkey launched a major invasion of Iraq to strike at Kurdish rebels.
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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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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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Turkish warplanes bombed separatist Kurdish rebel targets in northern Iraq on Saturday, a statement posted on the military's Web site said.
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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 Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan Tuesday indicated he would resist calls from the influential military for an incursion into neighbouring northern Iraq to pursue Turkish Kurd rebels taking refuge there.
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Iraq promised on Tuesday to close the offices of Kurdish rebels and work to prevent them launching attacks on Turkey, hoping to head off a threatened invasion to crush them by Turkish troops massed on the border.
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ANKARA: US troops hunting down extremists in Iraq should take care not to kill civilians, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned in a television interview.
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Turkish warplanes  attacked an Iraqi village on Wednesday, an Iraqi Kurdish  security official said, but Turkey said it wanted to hold back  from a major incursion to give diplomacy a chance.
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Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan  vowed on Saturday to continue to hit Kurdistan Workers Party  (PKK) targets in Iraq and criticized EU countries for not  cracking down fully on PKK affiliates within the bloc.
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Turkish warplanes have attacked Kurdish rebel positions in northern Iraq, the military in Ankara says.
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ANKARA/SULAIMANIYA  - Turkish warplanes bombed Kurdish guerrilla targets in northern Iraq on Wednesday, Turkey's general staff said, in their fourth such cross-border raid in five days.
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SIRNAK, Turkey  - Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan threatened to order an incursion into northern Iraq against Kurdish guerrillas on Saturday after diplomatic talks with Iraq aimed at averting a cross-border raid failed.