Turkey masses more troops, raids in Iraq confirmed
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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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The Turkish military defends air strikes and a ground incursion into Iraq to target alleged PKK rebel positions.
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ANKARA/SULAIMANIYA  - Turkish warplanes bombed Kurdish guerrilla targets in northern Iraq on Wednesday, Turkey's general staff said, in the fourth such cross-border raid in five days.
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Iraqi delegation travels to Turkey amid reports of further clashes between Kurdish fighters and Turkish troops.
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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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TUNCELI, Turkey  - 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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Turkey's military said it attacked Kurdish separatists in northern Iraq Saturday for the third time in less than a week, bombing and shelling positions and warning more will follow.
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Helicopter gunships went into action against rebel Kurds 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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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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Turkey has sent large contingents of reinforcement soldiers, tanks and armored personnel carriers to its border with Iraq
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CAIRO, Dec. 26 -- Turkish warplanes on Wednesday bombed suspected Kurdish rebel bases in northern Iraq for at least the third time in the past 10 days, while the Bush administration urged Turkey to act with restraint in its intensified cross-border offensive against the guerrillas.
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Turkey's military may stage more cross-border operations into northern Iraq to hunt down separatist Kurdish rebels, Turkey's parliament speaker said Thursday, as the justice minister again urged the rebels to surrender.
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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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TUNCELI, Turkey  - Turkish warplanes bombed important Kurdish guerrilla targets in northern Iraq on Saturday in a new cross-border offensive, the General Staff said.
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BAGHDAD, Oct. 25 -- The Turkish military continued attacks Thursday against Kurdish separatists in mountainous areas along the Turkish-Iraqi border, according to a statement from the Turkish Military General Staff.
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U.S. intelligence shared with Turkey led to the weekend raids in northern Iraq on Kurdish militants, Turkey's ambassador to the United States said on Wednesday.
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The American military presence in Iraq will grow by nearly 12,000 troops by next month, to 150,000, the highest level since the invasion last year, to