Iraq warns Turkey against 'disastrous' incursion
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Turkey paraded its military muscle Monday, amid stern warnings from Baghdad that any large-scale Turkish incursion against Kurdish rebel bases in northern Iraq would have "disastrous" results.
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IRBIL, Iraq -- Iraqi border police believe neighboring Turkey has amassed 20,000 to 30,000 soldiers along its southern border with Iraq. Turkish helicopters have flown into Iraqi airspace to conduct missions against Kurdish rebels in the mountainous region, and Turkish mortar shells regularly crash...
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BAGHDAD - Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki vowed yesterday to halt the activities of Kurdish separatists staging strikes into Turkey from northern Iraq, marking his government's strongest declaration yet that it would act to forestall a Turkish invasion.
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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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The Turkish military defends air strikes and a ground incursion into Iraq to target alleged PKK rebel positions.
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Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Sunday cautioned Turkey against sending troops into northern Iraq, as it has threatened, to hunt down Kurdish rebels it accuses of carrying out terrorist raids inside 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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Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari urged Iraq's neighbors Sunday to prevent ''terrorists and killers'' from crossing into his country and warned that the violence in Iraq could spill across its borders into other nations.
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The top commander of a Kurdish rebel group said his forces would resist any Turkish military incursion aimed at destroying rebel bases in northern Iraq, a news agency reported Saturday.
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Turkey is considering a ground operation against Kurdish rebels based in northern Iraq, private broadcaster CNN Turk quoted Foreign Minister Ali Babacan as saying on Tuesday.
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Turkey denied a report on Wednesday it  had launched a major incursion into northern Iraq to crush  Kurdish rebels, but a military source said troops had conducted  a limited raid across the mountainous border.
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ANKARA, Turkey -- Iraq's interim president promised yesterday to prevent Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq from launching attacks into Turkey, apparently hoping to avoid a Turkish military response.
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Turkey's foreign minister rejected any cease-fire by Kurdish rebels Tuesday as he met with Iraqi leaders in Baghdad to press them to crack down on the guerrillas. Turkish forces massed on the border and tensions rose over a threatened military incursion.
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Iraqi President Jalal Talabani warns   that Iraq can "make trouble" for its neighbors if they do not   stop interfering in his country's internal affairs.
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Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul warned yesterday that a referendum planned this year on the status of the Iraqi city of Kirkuk should be canceled or else the outcome might widen the sectarian violence that has largely left the northern part of Iraq untouched.
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Turkey's General Staff vowed on Friday to respond as it saw fit to attacks by Kurdish militants amid heightened speculation it may launch a major incursion into Northern Iraq to crush rebels hiding there.
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The US State Department acknowledged Tuesday Turkish concerns over the fate of ethnic Turkmen caught in the fighting in Iraq. On Monday, Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul