Kurds From Iraq Kill 17 Soldiers in Turkey
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BAGHDAD, Oct. 21 -- An audacious cross-border ambush by Kurdish rebels based in northern Iraq killed at least 17 Turkish soldiers Sunday, ratcheting up pressure on the Turkish government to launch a military offensive into Iraq.
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A bomb struck a predominantly Kurdish city in southeastern Turkey on Tuesday, killing seven people and wounding 17, the local governor's office said.
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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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Two Turkish airstrikes this month destroyed more than 200 Kurdish rebel targets in the mountains of northern Iraq, killing hundreds of insurgents, the military said Tuesday.
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ANKARA, Turkey Aug. 31, 2004 - Turkish troops have killed 11 Kurdish rebels in southeastern Turkey during the past three days, an official said Tuesday.
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TUNCELI, Turkey  - Kurdish rebels killed at least 12 Turkish soldiers and wounded 11 others on Sunday in an ambush in mountains near the Iraqi border, security sources said.
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Kurdish rebels killed at least  12 Turkish soldiers and wounded 16 others in an ambush on  Sunday, prompting Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan to call crisis  talks to consider a military strike against rebel bases in  Iraq.
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Turkish troops killed four Kurdish guerrillas in a southeastern province Wednesday, a day after police defused a bomb in the capital that authorities believe may have been planted by separatist rebels.
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Kurdish rebels kill at least seven Turkish soldiers in a raid on a military outpost in eastern Turkey, officials say.
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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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ANKARA, Oct 30 (IPS) - Clashes between Turkish army units and Kurdish  Workers Party (PKK) guerrillas intensified during the weekend  along Turkey's borders with northern Iraq and in the  country's eastern province of Tunceli. Twenty suspected  Kurdish rebels were killed, according to Turkish NTV network.
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Nine Turkish soldiers are killed in an ambush blamed on separatist Kurdish rebels, Turkish reports say.
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The United States continued efforts today to steer Turkey away from a military incursion into northern Iraq, after a cross-border raid by Kurdish rebels on Sunday killed 17 Turkish soldiers and raised the prospect of an escalating conflict.
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Seventeen people were killed and some 50 others wounded in heavy clashes overnight between US-Iraqi forces and insurgents in Iraq&#39;s northern town of Tall Afar, witnesses and medical sources said Thursday.
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Dozens of Turkish military vehicles streamed toward the Iraqi border with heavy artillery and ammunition Monday after Kurdish guerrillas killed a dozen soldiers and claimed to have captured eight in an intensifying crisis threatening to spill into Iraq.
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Turkish forces have killed hundreds of Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq in the past 10 days, Turkey's military says.
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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.