Rice pushes "roadmap" as Turkish troops enter Iraq
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KIRKUK, Iraq  - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, on a visit overshadowed by a Turkish incursion into northern Iraq, called on Iraqi leaders on Tuesday to urgently implement a national reconciliation roadmap.
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived for an unannounced visit in Baghdad early Saturday, a U.S. Embassy spokesman said. Rice's visit comes amid a security crackdown in the Iraqi capital and a political debate in the American capital, where the Senate was set for a test vote on a resolution condemning President Bush's troop increase.
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Turkey expects the U.S. to act against Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq but will take its own measures if it sees no results in the fight, the prime minister said.
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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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A group of Turkish troops enter northern Iraq, local officials say, after warning against Kurdish rebels there.
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Turkey has sent large contingents of reinforcement soldiers, tanks and armored personnel carriers to its border with Iraq as debate heated up over whether to stage a cross-border offensive to hit Kurdish rebel bases.
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Turkey's top general said Thursday the military was ready to stage a cross-border offensive to fight Kurdish guerrillas in Iraq and that he already had sought government approval to mount military action.
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KIRKUK, Iraq  - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice paid an unannounced visit to Iraq on Tuesday, flying directly into the volatile, ethnically mixed northern city of Kirkuk.
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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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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice intervened to ward off a strike by Turkey in northern Iraq after Kurdish rebels killed at least 12 Turkish soldiers.
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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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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 and give diplomacy a chance.
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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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U.S. and Turkish military officials were working Wednesday to streamline procedures for any future attacks against rebels in northern Iraq after top American officials in Baghdad were angered about how Sunday's Turkish bombing unfolded.
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Turkey's leadership will hold off on ordering an offensive against Kurdish guerrilla bases in northern Iraq until the prime minister visits Washington early next month, the military chief said Friday.
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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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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.