Iraq promises Turkey help over rebels
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Iraq, anxious to avert a Turkish military strike into its territory, pledged on Tuesday to rein in Kurdish separatists who are launching attacks on Turkey from northern Iraq.
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Iraq's foreign minister offers talks with Turkey, as cross-border tensions grow over Kurdish clashes.
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Iraq urges Kurdish rebels to leave the north of the country to avoid cross-border raids by Turkey.
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Turkey is serious about sending troops into northern Iraq to hunt down Kurdish separatist rebels hiding there and is not bluffing, a senior minister was quoted on Friday as saying.
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Turkish President Abdullah Gul said on Thursday Turkey was determined to take the necessary steps to end the threat from Kurdish guerrillas based in northern Iraq.
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Turkey's foreign minister flew to Baghdad Tuesday to pressure top Iraqi officials to crackdown on Kurdish rebels who ambushed and killed 12 Turkish soldiers two days before
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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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Ankara's foreign minister is to visit Baghdad in an effort to halt attacks by Kurdish fighters based in Iraq.
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Turkish Foreign Minister Ali Babacan flew to Baghdad on Tuesday for talks with Iraq's government in an effort to pressure Iraqi and U.S. authorities to crack down on Kurdish guerrillas, officials said.
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DIYARBAKIR, Turkey  - Turkey was poised on Monday to strike against Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq but will give Washington a few days to try to curb the separatists.
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Iraq today said it would send a military delegation to Turkey to discuss settling a dispute with a Kurdish separatist group.
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Turkey expects the United States to take  urgent action against Kurdish rebels hiding in northern Iraq,  its prime minister said, in comments suggesting Ankara hopes to  avoid a Turkish military operation in the region.
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Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan signaled on Tuesday that Turkey should focus on battling Kurdish guerrillas at home rather than in northern Iraq.
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Turkish armed forces could strike at any moment against Kurdish rebels Ankara says are sheltering over the border in Iraq, the country's army commander said Saturday.
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ANKARA, Turkey - Turkey's top military commander promised yesterday to make Iraq-based Kurdish rebels "grieve with an intensity that they cannot imagine," while the prime minister said his nation would fight "when needed," regardless of international pressure.
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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 Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan will urge the United States to take concrete action to crack down on Kurdish guerrillas in Iraq, newspapers reported on Sunday, as a unilateral rebel ceasefire went into effect.