Turkey flexes military might amid PKK clashes
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SIRNAK, Turkey  - Helicopter gunships bombed Kurdish rebel positions in eastern Turkey on Monday while the government flexed its military muscle with massive national day parades and flypasts in major cities.
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SIRNAK, Turkey  - Helicopter gunships bombed Kurdish rebel positions in southeast Turkey on Monday and the government flexed its military muscle with big national day parades and flypasts in major cities.
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Turkish Foreign Minister Ali Babacan on Sunday insisted Turkey was keeping open the option of military action against Kurdish militants in northern Iraq and called for greater international support.
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Turkey's government may seek an extension of its parliamentary mandate to attack Kurdish rebel targets in northern Iraq when the current authorization expires in October, Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday.
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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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GORUMLU, Turkey  - Turkey sent more tanks to its border with Iraq on Wednesday in a military build-up that is fuelling U.S. concern about a possible incursion into northern Iraq against Kurdish rebels.
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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's military warned Wednesday that the migration of large numbers of Kurds into the oil rich Iraqi city of Kirkuk could sway the results of the upcoming elections and possibly lead to clashes that could draw Ankara into the dispute.
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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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Turkeyâs prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, asked for help in the struggle against Kurdish separatists in Iraq.
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SIRNAK, Turkey  - Turkey said on Monday it will exhaust diplomatic channels before launching any military strike into northern Iraq to root out Kurdish rebels, who killed at least a dozen Turkish soldiers in fighting over the weekend.
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The head of Turkey's armed forces asks for guidelines for an incursion into northern Iraq to fight Kurdish guerrillas.
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Turkey named a new military chief Monday who favors a tougher line against Kurdish rebels and negotiations on the secular Muslim country joining the European Union.
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BAGHDAD, Oct. 24 -- The Turkish military has ramped up military operations along the southern border with Iraq, with aircraft reportedly bombarding the mountainous terrain on Wednesday, part of a growing confrontation that threatens to open a new northern front in the Iraq war.
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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'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.
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Turkey has options if it decides to launch a major assault on Kurdish rebels in Iraq: airstrikes on suspected hideouts, helicopter-borne commando raids, or the long-term occupation of a "buffer" zone to seal off paths across the mountainous border.